A4 Refereed article in a conference publication

Promoting Worker Wellbeing in the Era of Data Economy




AuthorsPonkala Salla, Koskinen Jani, Lähteenmäki Camilla, Tuomisto Antti

EditorsDavid Kreps, Robert Davison, Taro Komukai, Kaori Ishii

Conference nameIFIP International Conference on Human Choice and Computers

PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Publishing placeCham

Publication year2022

JournalIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Book title Human Choice and Digital by Default: Autonomy vs Digital Determination: 15th IFIP International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC 2022, Tokyo, Japan, September 8–9, 2022, Proceedings

Journal name in sourceIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Series titleIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volume656

First page 3

Last page17

ISBN978-3-031-15687-8

eISBN978-3-031-15688-5

ISSN1868-4238

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15688-5_1(external)

Web address https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-15688-5_1(external)


Abstract

The data economy is expanding, and SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises) have found themselves under increasing pressure to digitalise their processes and to adopt data-based solutions for business development. SMEs act in an ever more networked data economy ecosystems with a great number of information systems, digital technologies, and interfaces to learn to keep up with the competition. Digital transformation has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced many companies to take immediate digital leaps without proper preparation.

Meanwhile, data economy and digitalisation challenge worker wellbeing in SMEs in an unprecedented way: skills of entrepreneurs and workers related to digitised work seem to lag behind, leaving them with technostress and difficulties with coping and managing one’s own work and collaboration. This has potential for serious negative impacts on structural, social and psychological capital, which all affect the overall wellbeing capital in SMEs.

To tackle these issues, Wellbeing at Work from Digitalisation (WWFD) project was established to develop a fair, participatory and sustainable framework for SMEs to build their skills and worker wellbeing in the context of the data economy. It aims at placing the knowledge worker in control of their work by offering tools for building worker wellbeing as wellbeing capital. Based on the initial mapping in Finnish SMEs around Turku region, the toolbox is built around workplace democracy, value alignment, skill development and knowledge sharing to ensure that worker wellbeing is not compromised while encouraging the ever-better acquisition of digital technologies. The toolbox will be piloted in SMEs and refined further, and the final manual for WWFD will be published in Fall 2023.



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