Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in the world of work. But how widespread is AI in German companies, and how do employees view this development? Are they more concerned or optimistic? Ann Sophie Lauterbach and Florian Kunze examine these questions in the latest policy paper from the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” at the University of Konstanz.
Florian Kunze was invited as a guest on the ZDF program Volle Kanne in Düsseldorf to discuss how the world of work has changed over the past 25 years and what the future of work will look like. With Florian Weiss, he talks about many current topics, such as the development of telework, the 4-day week, artificial intelligence in the world of work, increasing workload and diversity.at the workplace
As immigration reshapes workforce demographics in many Western states, we aim to understand how the inclusion of migrants in blue-collar workgroups impacts group productivity. The new article of Apostolidou and Kunze discovers an inverted U-shaped relationship between between migrant percentage and group productivity, moderated by different factors. These findings are explained by a tentative theoretical model based on subjective status changes.
SWR: “Back to the office? No, thanks!” Many companies offer their employees the option of working from home. They even use it as an argument to attract new skilled workers, according to a recent Bertelsmann study. In contrast, there are companies that would prefer to oblige all employees to work from home again. Unfortunately for employees, they often suffer from symptoms of stress and exhaustion when they are no longer allowed to work from home. This is the result of a long-term study on…
