Seminar «Promises and perils of the Digital Transformation of Work»

The digitalization of work is transforming jobs, and their quality is being threatened, especially with the appearance of new forms of work. Although the digitalization of work offers business opportunities and enables greater flexibility for companies, it can also lead to greater precariousness by allowing greater discontinuity of work, uncertainty of working conditions, unpaid work, work-life imbalance, extension of work surveillance through tracking technologies, overlapping forms of discrimination and loss of bargaining power. Moreover, digitalization potentially hinders the collective dimension of labor relations, favoring more social and professional isolated work environments. 

The DigitalWORK project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, aims at addressing the lack of comprehensive treatment in the regulation of the issue. The project will allow the generation and advancement of knowledge and the identification of solutions for one of the most important challenges of our society, which is the digital transformation of work.

The seminar, organized by Esade and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, aims at analyzing the promises and perils of the digital transformation of work, by analyzing the business opportunities derived from the digitalization of the workplace and the perils associated with digital technologies.