How digitalisation is making work mobile and changing mobile work -
Opportunities, risks and design options

Whether in a café, on the train or on the beach: many people use their lunch break, on the way home or even on holiday to work on their laptop or smartphone. Companies are also increasingly focussing on mobile working. Employees are travelling to trade fairs, meetings and customers, but are also increasingly working from home. Mobile work in the age of digitalisation and Work 4.0 is the topic of the "Digital - Mobile" project. "Mobile working is indeed a blessing for many and brings with it a number of advantages," says Thomas Breisig, Professor of Economics at the Department of Business, Economics and Law and head of the project, "but we need to ensure that work-related mobility is healthy so that it does not become a curse."

The aim of the project is to explore the opportunities, risks and design options of different forms of mobile work. To this end, design approaches from the recently completed study "prentimo - prevention-orientated design of mobile work" are to be made accessible to experts and those affected and further developed together. Those affected and experts are the employees themselves, their interest groups (works and Staff Councils, women's representatives, trade unions), company management and trade associations as well as stakeholders who are indirectly affected by the increase in mobile work (urban and regional planners, transport planners, environmental associations).

In 2020, various fields of action relating to mobile work will be discussed in depth in four future workshops. Particular attention will be paid to individual and occupational health protection, the relationship between gainful employment and private life ("work-life balance"), the development of skills among mobile workers, changes in management tasks as a result of mobile work and the question of what transport effects mobile work can have. The results of the future workshops will then be compiled and cross-field perspectives developed, which will be presented at a public closing event.

New: Impulse paper
with suggestions for health-orientated, socially acceptable working from home for download.

"Digital-Mobil" - future workshops

11 February 2020: Health & individual skills development
30 June 2020: Work-life balance & gender arrangements
09 July 2020: Transport & environment
03 September 2020: Health & leadership

Documentation of the future workshops

Materials (input presentations, results from working groups) on the future workshops held are provided below.

11 February 2020, Future Workshop "Digital - Mobile"

Health & individual skills development
Lecture
Health and individual skills development
Hiltraud Grzech-Sukalo, University of Oldenburg

Lecture + photo protocol of the event

Documentation of the kick-off and closing events

Materials on the events at the start (4 December 2019) and end (1 December 2020) of the "Digital-Mobil" project are provided below.