Making sense of our connected world
Impactful by design: For digital entrepreneurs driven to create positive societal impact
How impact entrepreneurs can shape digital innovation to build technologies that create meaningful and lasting societal change.
Emotionless competition at work: When trust in Artificial Intelligence falters
Emotionless competition with AI harms workplace trust. When employees feel outperformed by machines, confidence in their skills and the technology declines.
Who hired this bot? On the ambivalence of using generative AI in recruiting
Generative AI in recruiting promises efficiency, but may also quietly undermine the human connection that HR decisions and candidate fit rely on.
Polished yet impersonal: The unintended consequences of writing your emails with AI
AI-written emails can save workers time and improve clarity – but are we losing connection, nuance, and communication skills in the process?
How People Analytics can affect the perception of fairness in the workplace
People Analytics in the workplace can improve decisions but may also heighten feelings of unfairness, impacting employee trust and workplace relationships.
Empowering workers with data
As workplaces become data-driven, can workers use people analytics to advocate for their rights? This article explores how data empowers workers and unions.
Digital innovation and entrepreneurship
Increasingly, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are investing in digital technologies to respond to the rapid changes that are now affecting almost all sectors of life and work. Many SMEs take this step either to realign their business model, to make their processes more efficient or simply because they are forced to do so by structural change and altering customer needs. But what concrete activities and strategies do SMEs pursue in terms of digital innovation? What are the different approaches? What exactly do successful digitisation projects look like in medium-sized companies? In our dossier we get to the bottom of these and other questions.
Work in the digital age
The future of work is now. We work side by side with intelligent technologies. Does that frighten us or does it give us courage? Automation and AI are changing the world of work. How will we work tomorrow, and who gets a say? No machine can give us the answers. At least for now. The issue in focus “work in the digital age” was created in 2017 during the research project Competing and Complementing – The Relation of Co-determination and new Participatory Platforms within Companies. Among others, the research project Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Work – Implications, Opportunities And Risks currently investigates the future of work.
