DigitAgile: The Office in a Mobile Device. Threats and Opportunities for Workers and Companies

Chapter
Publication Date:
2018
Short description:
DigitAgile: The Office in a Mobile Device. Threats and Opportunities for Workers and Companies / Albano, R., Bertolini, S., Curzi, Y., Fabbri, T., Parisi, T. - In: Working in Digital and Smart Organizations. Legal, Economic and Organizational Perspectives on the Digitalization of Labour Relations / [a cura di] Edoardo Ales Ylenia Curzi Tommaso Fabbri Olga Rymkevich Iacopo Senatori Giovanni Solinas. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan/Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature, 2018. - ISBN 9783319773285. - pp. 193-222 [10.1007/978-3-319-77329-2_10]
abstract:
The chapter focuses on “smart working”, also known as “agile work” - that is, work based on the extensive use of digital devices and increasing spatial and temporal “disembedding” from the formal organization. The chapter firstly examines the spread of the phenomenon at the international and national levels. Through a meta-analysis of existing qualitative and quantitative research, it then addresses the following research questions:
- Organizational autonomy, discretion, and control in the regulation of work.
- The relationship between digitalization, employment, individual and organizational productivity.
- The reconciliation of work with extra-work life.
A complex picture emerges, including both opportunities and risks with respect to the development and circulation of new competences, work-life balance, as well as good practices of organizing work and productivity.
Iris type:
Capitolo/Saggio
Keywords:
Smart Working, Agile Work, Organizational Autonomy, Organizational Discretion, Productivity, Work–Life Balance
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Handle:
https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1153926
Book title:
Working in Digital and Smart Organizations. Legal, Economic and Organizational Perspectives on the Digitalization of Labour Relations