Digital Work—Information Technology and Commute Choice
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information and Communications Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 27828
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent systems; digital business; technology adoption; decision analysis
Interests: telecommute; commute choices; transport planning; transport economics; transport policy
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Dear Colleagues,
Digital systems and technologies, including big data, artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, Internet of Things, cloud computing, mobile computing, social media, and digital platforms, have reshaped how work is designed, performed, and managed in organizations. This leads to the emerging digital work environments (telework, telecommute, etc.) in which the work arrangement in organizations is becoming more contingent, flexible, and distributed.
The emerging digital work environment has created a situation in which digital work has become the “new normal” for individuals in organizations. This has been well demonstrated during the COVID-19 global pandemic where many individuals have been forced to work from home due to government-enforced lockdowns. The flexibilities that digital work provide for individuals in terms of where, how, and when work is completed lead to numerous benefits including higher job satisfaction, increased autonomy, improved productivity, reduced work–family conflict, lower stress, and reduced commuting time and costs. As a result, digital work is becoming increasingly popular across the world.
This Special Issue aims to provide a forum to explore the emerging opportunities and challenges that digital technologies bring into the contemporary workplace. It is open to all disciplines, methodological approaches and perspectives. Both theoretical and empirical research papers are welcome. Novel approaches to the study of digital work, telework, telecommuting and related phenomena are particularly desirable.
Potential topics include, but not limited to:
- Factors influencing choice of telework or telecommuting;
- Impact of COVID-19 on commuters’ mode choices;
- Digital technologies for digital work;
- Automation and augmentation of tasks, work and occupations;
- Digitization and job mobility;
- Digitization and the future of work, workplaces and occupations;
- Motivation, career prospects and incentive structure in digital work;
- Ethics, security, safety, and privacy in digital work;
- Management of work and workers in digital work;
- Design theories for future work environments;
- Economic implications of digital work for productivity and efficiency.
Prof. Dr. Hepu Deng
Prof. Dr. Richard Tay
Dr. Sophia Duan
Guest Editors
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