By Christian Korunka, Peter Hoonakker
This ebook discusses the impression and results of data and communique applied sciences (ICT) on caliber of operating lifetime of staff. It describes the alterations and the acceleration of tactics brought on by the frequent use of ICT in a huge variety of operating parts and in several nationwide contexts. It explores the real function ICT has come to play in approximately all paintings locations in constructed societies and the impression it's commencing to have on paintings locations in constructing nations. The ebook brings jointly specialists from the fields of ICT and caliber of operating existence and from numerous backgrounds and disciplines, together with sociology, psychology, business engineering and macro ergonomics. It discusses the diversity of present confident and negatives results in addition to the prospective elevate of either different types of results sooner or later. the ultimate bankruptcy of the ebook integrates the various views of the authors and provides tips on the best way to bring up the prospective optimistic results and to decrease unwanted effects of ICT in an speeded up society.
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As can be seen, trends in job insecurity were similar among countries. In Spain, France, Finland, and the United Kingdom, the general trend pointed towards an increase in job insecurity. Only in Germany perceived job insecurity decreased from 2005 to 2010. Next, we analyzed whether job insecurity varies according to employees’ educational level. Based on the ISCO code, we again distinguished four skill levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary education and tertiary education with university degree.
2). The results show how rapidly computers have been introduced in the workplace in the past 20 years. In 2010, more than half of employees in the EU27 worked with a computer at least 25 % of their time. I examined whether this increase in use of computers had an impact on quality of working life in those countries. Results show that in most countries working at high speed has increased in the past decade, as well as working with tight deadlines. However, overall, most employees in the EU27 are satisfied or very satisfied with their working conditions.