Digitalization and its impact on competences jobs, and the workplace

• Autor(a) principal: Denishin, Sam
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/31211
• topic: Digitalization; Competences; Jobs of the future; Workplace of the future; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Digitalization is having a profound impact on the world, and the people and businesses in it. It is imperative that digitalization and the impact this will have on competences, jobs, and the workplace be properly understood. A thorough and deep diving literature review has been done on this subject. Digitalization and its impact have not been properly understood by the business community. There is a lot of confusion on the terminology in this field, nevertheless there is widespread understanding that digitalization is going to enormously impact companies. The importance of competences is going to change in the coming decades. The value of competences relating to physical strength will plummet. Jobs that are routine and manual have the highest likelihood of disappearing due to digitalization. This does not mean that there will be no jobs for people. In the future, people, robots, and software are going to work side-by-side. Competences dealing with social intelligence and creativity will become more important as these are harder to automate. Individuals must however focus on combining a wide variety of competences in order to become more valuable in the labour market. The future marketplace will be one where consolidation is rampant and data-opolies reign supreme. A few companies will have most of the power, these are the ones with the most data. They will be forced to become more sustainable and socially responsible. These companies will also use these new traits to attract new employees as people will judge companies based on social criteria.