REFLECTIONS OF THE DIGITAL AGE ON WORKING LIFE; DIGITALIZATION OF LABOR, NEW BUSINESS MODELS, REMOTE WORKING IN TURKEY AND THE WORLD

Year 2024, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 144 - 163, 28.12.2024

Berivan Özay Acar , Muhammed Şükrü Mollavelioğlu

https://doi.org/10.56574/nohusosbil.1479864

Abstract

In our age where technological advances continue to slow down, all processes that concern our lives are in constant change and transformation. The determinant of this age, where many definitions such as digital age, information age, post-modern age are used and everyone agrees that a new era has begun, is undoubtedly the developments in the field of technology. With the inclusion of digital technologies, which are included in every aspect of our lives, in the labor market, the existence of labor, which has been the subject of many exploitations in history, has taken its current form as digital labor in the new economy. The fact that almost all processes related to business organization have changed due to digital technologies has led to the emergence of new business models. Within the scope of the Covid-19 Pandemic, countries quickly transitioned to remote digital work in order to reduce the transmission rate of the epidemic, thus 2020 became the year of the largest mass remote work in history. The transition to this working model, which is perceived as efficient by global companies, has been made permanent in many countries when the course of the epidemic eased. This study deals with the impact of digitalization on labor markets in our age when almost everything is digital, the digitalization of labor and remote working practices in Turkey and the world as a new business model

Keywords

Digital Age, Digital Labor, New Business Models, Remote Working

DİJİTAL ÇAĞIN ÇALIŞMA HAYATINA YANSIMALARI; EMEĞİN DİJİTALLEŞMESI, YENİ İŞ MODELI OLARAK TÜRKIYE’DE VE DÜNYADA UZAKTAN ÇALIŞMA

Abstract

Teknolojik ilerlemelerin hız kesmediği çağımızda yaşamımızı ilgilendiren tüm süreçler sürekli olarak bir değişim ve dönüşüm içerisindedir. Dijital çağ, bilgi çağı, post-modern çağ gibi birçok tanımlama kullanılan ve herkesin yeni bir çağ başladığına dair hem fikir olduğu bu çağın belirleyicisi şüphesiz teknoloji alanında yaşanan gelişmelerdir. Hayatımızın her alanına dahil olan dijital teknolojilerin iş gücü piyasasına da dahil olmasıyla tarihte birçok sömürünün öznesi olan emeğin yeni ekonomide varlığı dijital emek olarak güncel biçimini almıştır. İş organizasyonu ile ilgili neredeyse tüm süreçlerin dijital teknolojiler sebebiyle değişikliğe uğraması, yeni iş modellerinin de ortaya çıkmasına yol açmıştır. Covid-19 Pandemisi kapsamında salgının bulaşma hızını azaltmak için ülkeler uzaktan dijital çalışmaya hızlı bir şekilde geçiş yapmış, böylelikle 2020 yılı tarihte yaşanan en geniş toplu uzaktan çalışmanın yapıldığı yıl olmuştur. Küresel şirketler tarafından verimli olarak algılanan bu çalışma modeline geçiş, salgının seyri hafiflediğinde de birçok ülkede kalıcı hale getirilmiştir. Bu çalışma hemen her şeyin dijitalleştiği çağımızda dijitalleşmenin iş gücü piyasalarına etkisini, emeğin dijitalleşmesini ve yeni iş modeli olarak Türkiye ve Dünyada uzaktan çalışma uygulamalarını ele almaktadır.

Keywords

Dijital Çağ, Dijital Emek, Yeni İş Modelleri, Uzaktan Çalışma

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