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Publication of our article "Toward the Workplace of the Future: How Organizations can Facilitate Digital Work" in der Zeitschrift "Business Horizons"

Business Horizons, Volume 62, Issue 5, September-October 2019, pp. 649-661

We are pleased to announce the release of our article "Toward the workplace of the future: How organizations can facilitate digital work" in the journal "Business Horizons". The article appeared in the print edition of the Volume 62, Issue 5, September-October 2019, pp. 649-661.

Sven Dittes, Shahper Richter, Alexander Richter, Stefan Smolnik: Toward the Workplace of the Future: How Organizations can Facilitate Digital Work

Summary: The workplace of the future focuses on how and what work is done, not where and when it is done. Thus, organizations increasingly provide new and innovative information technology (IT) to create the workplace of the future by effectively facilitating digital work. However, digital work means more than just using new, innovative IT. Along with increasing flexibility, employees also crave balance and structure when, for instance, it comes to the blurred boundaries between private and business life. Our article investigates how three organizations from diverse domains establish digital work. Based on our empirical results, we identify four major management challenges that organizations need to overcome in order to introduce digital work environments effectively. Further, we identify lessons learned and derive eight recommendations for organizations to facilitate digital work.