Flexible Work = Atypical Work = Precarious Work? Introduction to the Special Issue

Theory and Practice of Flexible Work: Organizational and Individual Perspectives. Introduction to the Special Issue

Over the last decades, scholars have paid consistent attention to the concepts of flexible work. This reflects the growing relevance of flexible work patterns in practice. The general assumption is that flexible work arrangements enable an organization to adapt its workforce to changes in the working environment, which is mainly based on Atkinson’s (1984) groundbreaking ‘flexible firm’ model. I...

Special Issue on Human Work Interaction Design

IFIP 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) is a working group, which aims to establish relationships between empirical work-domain studies and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design. Our concern is to extend the long tradition of HCI to study the connections between interaction design and the work context, in the light of the fact that the world that we work in has become much more digital...

Precarious employment conditions affect work content in education and social work: results of work analyses.

Work content is adversely affected by precarious employment conditions, with consequences for workers and clients/customers. Three examples are taken from professions involving long-term relations between workers and clients. Adult education teachers hired on short-term contracts to teach primarily immigrant populations prepare their courses under less favorable conditions than regular teachers...

Introduction to special issue on concurrency and coordination: Selected work from the International Workshop ConCoord

Special Issue on Robots and the Work Environment

The future development of industries is currently on the agenda of public and scientific debates. Due to new technical options such as artificial intelligence and robots, sensor networks, big data, etc., which are “captured in terms such as the Internet of Things and the Internet of Robotic Things” according to van Est and Kools [1], visions like Industry 4.0 in Germany, the Future d’Industrie ...