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Work 4.0 21. March 2021

The opportunities of the digital working world – NewWork

The digitization and networking of the economy with the use of new technologies, with new automation processes and new business models also has consequences for the world of work. Office work as we currently know it could change and bring opportunities and risks with it. This text deals with the opportunities offered by digitization. Work-life balance Home office and mobile work stand for free time management, a lack of commuting, greater personal responsibility and the compatibility of work and family. Demotivating the need to control and distrust. Anyone who sits in the home office can work more independently or at least feels that way says that Magazine CIO . The magazine also says: Many employees who work long days complain that they “get nothing else”. I mean shopping, washing clothes, repairing the bike. All of this has to take place on the weekend because between Monday and Friday the person…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Digitization in the workplace – opportunities and risks

Digitization will change working life considerably in the coming years – in almost all areas. If you don’t prepare, you will have a problem, one of those Articles from the world. The digital change is therefore increasingly changing our professional life. Without computers and the Internet, work stands still in many companies today. Craftsmen manufacture furniture or car parts with digital help, architects create construction plans in no time at all, where they had to make elaborate drawings beforehand. Employees are connected to one another via social networks, digital programs facilitate work processes and agreements with one another. Employees can concentrate on essential tasks and are no longer overloaded with administrative tasks, for example (source: Education experts ). Digitization in the workplace: Home offices are usually better equipped than the office In the Study by WiWo on digitization in the workplace can be summarized as follows: ” Digitization is more…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

What is work 4.0 – definition?

The future of work in the context of the digitization of many areas of life is summarized under the term “Work 4.0”. Sounds simple, but in practice it is highly complicated: The buzzword “Work 4.0” conceals a plethora of unresolved labor law issues for employers, managers and employees Manager magazine . This article should therefore summarize the idea and selected concepts behind the term work 4.0. The basic question of the article is therefore: What is work 4.0 and is there a definition? Overview of the terms First I would like to give an overview of the many terms. I define work 4.0 as an umbrella term for the influence of digitization on work. In my opinion, other terms describe certain aspects of this new digital work. The table is from the source (Lindner 2019). WHAT IS WORK 4.0 As a term, “Work 4.0” deals with the future of work…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

What about the digital world of work?

The Working world is going digital and changing! But what significance will human work performance still have in the future? Does knowledge work abolish knowledge work? asks herself FAZ in an article . Also BPB notes the following: Are we witnessing a digital revolution that will soon turn our working world upside down? We cannot say for sure what our working world of tomorrow will look like, but the change is here. No one can currently say whether this change is good or bad. The world sums up the negative consequences: Digitization forces many people to work faster and brings them to the edge of exhaustion. Concern about the job is also increasing. Paradox: Nonetheless, most people think change is good. Because it also has a lot of positives like the thinkers determine: The flexibility in terms of location and time makes it easier for employees in general: commuters can,…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

When employees have quit internally …

Longing for the end of the day on the way to work in the morning can be an indication that you are in love – or that you have already left your job behind you ( LaborABC ). After reading an article about Boredom at work wrote and he had really found a broad readership within a short time, I thought about what the consequence of boredom in the job can be. One approach could be as follows: Employees have internally quit after a period of boredom. But what exactly does that mean and what are the signs? What does it mean to have quit internally? “The internal termination As a concept of the world of work is a newer word formation with which the phenomena of lack of work motivation and minimization of the work effort are attempted to conceptually to a just acceptable extent. It is not the…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Agile personnel development and self-organization

“Many have forgotten how to work independently” Human Resources Manager magazine . The magazine sees reasons in the fact that many employees have forgotten how to work independently due to classic management practice or hardly have the chance to learn it. Every decision, for example when to take vacation, was made for them by the manager, so that at first it was difficult for them to actually work in a self-organized manner, to take on responsibility and to show commitment. They also underline the thesis of my article on agile HR management – more than Scrum that more and more companies are now starting to transfer agile methods such as Scrum from IT to other areas of the company. Personnel development is not spared either. Personnel development in an agile context Provides an approach Dr. Ralf Graesslerwho states the following: “What we are currently doing is not moving a battleship…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Boreout – boredom at work?

“Employers shouldn’t like this news at all: More than every third German millennial wants to change their employer within the next two years at the latest” (source Horizont.de ). Studies on this topic are also currently being discussed in the well-known TV stations. Depending on the study, every 3rd or 5th employee has already quit internally and would like to change soon. I found these numbers alarming and took a closer look at the background to the studies. The leading career magazines and blogs also seem to have picked up on this trend and I have noticed for some time that I find more and more articles in my newsfeeds such as: Should you quit, how do I prepare a resignation, resignation, how do I tell the boss and much more. The diagnosis: boredom at work The studies point to boredom at work as the cause. So there is no…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Agile HR management – more than just Scrum?

Digital transformation , Agility , Work 4.0 , NewWork , Futurework , … If you look at current HR magazines, you will quickly notice that the field of HR is currently anything but boring. Managing flat hierarchies, meaningful work, horizontal careers and agile teams are the daily tasks of a modern HR manager. So there seems to be a change and the vision of human resource management seems to be changing? We want to revolutionize management in order to build extraordinary companies of the future with self-reliant employees and executives who can adapt extremely quickly in times of (digital) change (Andre Häusling – HR Pioneers ) Paradigm shift in HR Currently leading HR experts define a change in personnel management from hierarchy and silo thinking to network and interdisciplinarity. Profit maximization to benefit maximization, external control and top-down decisions on personal responsibility and human expertise. HR is also required to…