The Impact of a New Workplace Technology on Employees
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| Název: | The Impact of a New Workplace Technology on Employees |
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| Autoři: | Marek Giebel, Alexander Lammers |
| Zdroj: | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 87:1003-1024 |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Wiley, 2025. |
| Rok vydání: | 2025 |
| Témata: | Technology, Future of work, Training, Overtime, Organisational change, Labour intensity |
| Popis: | How does the implementation of a new technology affect workers? Using detailed worker‐level data for Germany, we analyse the impact of new technologies on non‐monetary working conditions such as overtime, training and perceived labour intensity. We show that the strongest effects arise in the first year of their implementation. These effects diminish after the introduction period. We further provide evidence that the impact of technology adoption varies across diverse occupational and industrial contexts. Workers in occupations with a higher task substitution potential show stronger increases in overtime, training measures and labour intensity. Analysing industry characteristics, we find that employees exposed to a new technology react more strongly in industries with higher business dynamics in terms of organisational capital and R&D investment. Extending these considerations to information and communication technology (ICT) usage, we show that new technologies exert stronger effects in industries with high investment in ICT equipment or low investment in software. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISSN: | 1468-0084 0305-9049 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/obes.12674 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://research.cbs.dk/en/publications/407fcc3d-7f34-4cd4-82c1-f21c221d8d5f https://hdl.handle.net/10398/407fcc3d-7f34-4cd4-82c1-f21c221d8d5f https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12674 |
| Rights: | CC BY |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....ac4034f9997c89c6d4a86eb7cda0a3d2 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | How does the implementation of a new technology affect workers? Using detailed worker‐level data for Germany, we analyse the impact of new technologies on non‐monetary working conditions such as overtime, training and perceived labour intensity. We show that the strongest effects arise in the first year of their implementation. These effects diminish after the introduction period. We further provide evidence that the impact of technology adoption varies across diverse occupational and industrial contexts. Workers in occupations with a higher task substitution potential show stronger increases in overtime, training measures and labour intensity. Analysing industry characteristics, we find that employees exposed to a new technology react more strongly in industries with higher business dynamics in terms of organisational capital and R&D investment. Extending these considerations to information and communication technology (ICT) usage, we show that new technologies exert stronger effects in industries with high investment in ICT equipment or low investment in software. |
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| ISSN: | 14680084 03059049 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/obes.12674 |