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On the Impact of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence on Employers' Flexibility Requirements in Occupations—Empirical Evidence for Germany

Originally published 2022-05-03 · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/frai.2022.868789 ↗

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AI / system type

Digitalization and occupational AI-application potential, distinct from measured generative-AI use

Workplace evidence

Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.

The AI connection

System or context examined: Digitalization and occupational AI-application potential, distinct from measured generative-AI use. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.

Why this reading matters

The reading brings employers’ flexibility demands as digitalization changes occupations into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers establishment-survey and occupational-data analysis evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.

Workplace evidence

Work, care and the whole person.

The workplace lens is employers’ flexibility demands as digitalization changes occupations. Source setting or population: German employers in the IAB Job Vacancy Survey, combined with occupation-specific characteristics. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.

Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.

Editorial reading guide · Independence

Whose flexibility increases when digital technology changes the work?

This establishment-survey and occupational-data analysis examines employers’ flexibility demands as digitalization changes occupations. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.

Study context

German employers in the IAB Job Vacancy Survey, combined with occupation-specific characteristics

Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred

Read with three questions

  1. Whose flexibility increases when digital technology changes the work?
  2. What do this study’s design and population — German employers in the IAB Job Vacancy Survey, combined with occupation-specific characteristics — allow you to infer about another workplace?
  3. When considering employers’ flexibility demands as digitalization changes occupations, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?

Keep the limits in view

Employer assessments and occupational exposure proxies are not direct measurements of individual AI use or employee wellbeing.

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Anja Warning; Enzo Weber; Anouk Püffel (2022). On the Impact of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence on Employers' Flexibility Requirements in Occupations—Empirical Evidence for Germany Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.868789

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