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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

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,…

Digital change 21. March 2021

VUCA world and the digital transformation

“We live in a VUCA world” has been heard and read more and more recently. However, the term VUCA is by no means new and dates back to the Cold War era. There it was used by the US Army to describe the complex and “illogical” situation. Now, in the course of the digital transformation, this term seems to be finding its way back into literature. But what does it mean? VUCA world What does the term “VUCA World” actually mean and how is it to be interpreted? I have one approach in the blog of Complement found. VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) stands for the following: V (volatility) – prepare for wild times. The challenges will be unexpected and unstable, keeping you busy for an indefinite period of time. U (uncertainty) – hardly predictability, hardly predictability, potential for surprises C (complexity) – no trivial “recipes”, environment cannot be simplified,…

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…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Digital minds – Booksmart or Streetsmart? #digitalheads

The digital transformation is coming and brings with it numerous challenges. Complexity and dynamism are increasing rapidly and people and companies are constantly being challenged to “reinvent themselves”. Since then, one often reads job advertisements that are looking for digital heads. But what are these #digitalheads actually? For this I came across the terms Streetsmart and Booksmart. Both terms are not defined uniformly and that’s why I tried to get information from current articles in the context of digital transformation. In the end, I try to evaluate which type we need more in a digital future. STREETSMART A streetsmart is a person who has extensive practical knowledge. So this person knows “how the world is going”! The term comes from street fighting, which has no logical rules and in some way redefines its own rules over and over again. So it can only be successfully passed through experience. In jargon…

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…