Idea
The measures against the Corona pandemic are also fundamentally changing the world of work. Many workers are being sent to home offices or have to work under strict hygiene regulations. On the one hand, this accelerates the digitization of work, but on the other hand, it also shows that many occupational fields have particular difficulties with digital and distanced work.
How do companies and employees deal with the Corona measures? How are the risks being managed? How are policymakers trying to anticipate and address the crisis? This project examines how the balance between digital and work in presence has to be found again and again under the conditions of Corona and which handling of risks is developed. The focus is on software development, theaters, hospitals, and manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises.
The project has five main objectives:
- impacts of Corona-related physical distancing on bodily labor practices.
- risk conflicts in Corona-conditional tensions
- dynamic boundary management as a regulatory challenge
- analysis of the implementation of governance practices
- evaluation of practices and governance concepts to cope with work-related consequences of the pandemic
To this end, researchers from the University of Hamburg and the Institute for Social Science Research (ISF) will conduct interviews in companies from the four fields and evaluate policy documents on pandemic response. In a transdisciplinary workshop, these results will be fed back to experts from the field, such as human resources managers and public administrators.
The results of this project are intended to contribute to a faster, more reflective and more forward-looking response to future threats in the world of work.