tailieunhanh - Digital technologies make work more demanding

Although ongoing digitalisation of the production and of the service sector is stoking fears of job losses, there are indications that the overall effect on employment will be relatively slight. In fact, the main expectation is that the nature of work will fundamentally change. As the use of digital technologies increases, employees will be able to carry out more demanding tasks. This article uses data from a current additional survey of the BIBB-Establishment-Panel on Qualication and Competence Development to investigate the impacts of the deployment of digital technologies from rms’ point of view. | RESEARCH EXCHANGE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES MAKE WORK MORE DEMANDING FELIX LUKOWSKI 1 CAROLINE NEWBER-POHL 2 3 Although ongoing digitalisation of the production and of the service sector is stoking fears of job losses there are indications that the overall effect on employment will be relatively slight. In fact the main expectation is that the nature of work will fundamentally change. As the use of digital technologies increases employees will be able to carry out more demanding tasks. This article uses data from a current additional survey of the BIBB-Establishment-Panel on Qualification and Competence Development to investigate the impacts of the deployment of digital technologies from firms point of view. Substitution or new requirements The predominant assumption in the relevant literature is that in future new digital technologies and media will be increasingly able to replace human work in the execution of repetitive tasks that are easily programmable cf. Autqr et al. 2003 . Because the programmability of tasks which require skill the handling of irregular objects 1 as well as social and creative intelligence is limited cf. Frey Qsbqrne 2016 Tiemann 2016 such activities should grow in importance in the wake of the technological shift. Many studies are currently examining this approach by looking at the potential substitutability of humans by machines. Despite technological progress no massive collapse in employment has been discernible thus far. Autqr 2015 explains this by stating that machines complement human tasks in a wide variety of ways rather 1 Felix Lukowski Research Associate on the BIBB-Establishment-Panel on Qualification and Competence Development in the Sociology and Economics of Vocational Education and Training Division at BIBB 2 Caroline Neuber-Pohl Research Associate in the Qualifications Occupational Integration and Employment Division at BIBB 3 Frey Osborne 2016 make reference to the processing and handling of inconsistent objects which cannot .