{"id":4543,"date":"2017-03-15T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2024-06-21T09:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T07:11:40","slug":"digital-working-arrangements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements","title":{"rendered":"Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital working arrangements are becoming increasingly common in everyday life. It&#8217;s no secret that the planet is becoming increasingly interconnected with recent digital innovations changing the way we work. Companies and employees alike are seeing the value in flexible working arrangements facilitated by digital technologies. In this blog, we take a closer look at flexible, digital working arrangements.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his time as President in the post-cold-war era, Bill Clinton remarked in 2002 that few people in the early 1990s fully appreciated the technological and information shifts occurring throughout the globe. \u201cWhen I took the oath of office as President on January 20th, 1993\u201d, he said, \u201cthere were only 50 sites on the World Wide Web. When I left office, there were over 350 million and rising. Today, there are probably somewhere around 500 million\u201d. Fast forward to 2017 and there are over 1 billion websites out there.<\/p>\n<h3>Digital working arrangements<\/h3>\n<p>This new digital era has brought with it new opportunities for innovative working arrangements. As many tasks can now be performed over the Internet and monitored by employers using project management tools, trends such as \u201ctelecommuting\u201d, \u201cremote work\u201d and \u201cjob sharing\u201d are on the rise.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Telecommuting<\/strong> &#8211; using mobile telecommunications technologies such as the Internet, laptops and smartphones to work outside of the office for part of the week, whilst being at the office for the remainder of the week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Remote work<\/strong> &#8211; using these same mobile telecommunications technologies to work entirely outside of a traditional office environment. Remote workers can perform their tasks from anywhere with an Internet connection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Job sharing<\/strong> &#8211; having two part-time employees performing tasks which would traditionally be a single full-time job. The emergence of innovative apps which \u201cmatch\u201d prospective job-sharers based on skills, experience and availability, who then apply for jobs as a team, is likely to fuel this trend even further.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One company at the forefront of these kinds of flexible working arrangements is Dell. As part of their \u201cLegacy of Good 2020\u201d plan, Dells aims to have half of its global workforce on flexible working arrangements by 2020. The company sees achieving this goal as crucial to remaining competitive as well as attracting and retaining talented people. Their cultural shift is best summed up with the phrase: \u201cdo your best work in the way which works best for you\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>Digital nomads<\/h3>\n<p>Digital working arrangements aren\u2019t just for traditional company employees. A growing number of freelancers are using their technological expertise to work from anywhere in the world. These \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3068312\/the-digital-nomads-guide-to-working-from-anywhere-on-e\">digital nomads<\/a>\u201d are able to earn their incomes online as they travel to different exotic locations across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>These digital working arrangements seem to be the way of the future. Indeed, when we looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/work-in-the-digital-era-a-brief-history-of-work\">the history work<\/a>, I was writing from Sri Lanka. This week, it&#8217;s sunny Australia. Digital working arrangements undoubtedly bring many benefits to some employees and employers alike, they also bring with them their own unique sets of challenges. Time differences and the occasional internet connectivity problems are issues faced by many. For many, it is just as challenging to get out of the traditional mindset of &#8220;the workplace&#8221;. In the next instalment of this blog series, we\u2019ll delve deeper into the pros and cons of digital working arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital working arrangements are becoming increasingly common in everyday life. It&#8217;s no secret that the planet is becoming increasingly interconnected with recent digital innovations changing the way we work. Companies and employees alike are seeing the value in flexible working arrangements facilitated by digital technologies. In this blog, we take a closer look at flexible, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":4401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","ub_ctt_via":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[736],"tags":[1162,1215,1217,1213],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/work_digital_era.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Charles Harding","author_link":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/author\/c-harding"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Technological innovation has sparked a new trend towards digital working arrangements. Learn more about the way work is changing in the digital era.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Technological innovation has sparked a new trend towards digital working arrangements. Learn more about the way work is changing in the digital era.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"POLYAS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-15T09:30:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-21T07:11:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/work_digital_era.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"860\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Charles Harding\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Charles Harding\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements\",\"name\":\"Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-15T09:30:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-21T07:11:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/3b9240fa164074e2fc773e7fcd238148\"},\"description\":\"Technological innovation has sparked a new trend towards digital working arrangements. Learn more about the way work is changing in the digital era.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"de-DE\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/de\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"POLYAS\",\"description\":\"the blog for secure online voting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"de-DE\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/3b9240fa164074e2fc773e7fcd238148\",\"name\":\"Charles Harding\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"de-DE\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a9eee54a942871db9227087900a40d73?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a9eee54a942871db9227087900a40d73?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Charles Harding\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.polyas.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/author\/c-harding\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements","description":"Technological innovation has sparked a new trend towards digital working arrangements. Learn more about the way work is changing in the digital era.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements","og_locale":"de_DE","og_type":"article","og_title":"Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements","og_description":"Technological innovation has sparked a new trend towards digital working arrangements. Learn more about the way work is changing in the digital era.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements","og_site_name":"POLYAS","article_published_time":"2017-03-15T09:30:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-06-21T07:11:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":860,"height":300,"url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/work_digital_era.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Charles Harding","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Verfasst von":"Charles Harding","Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit":"4 Minuten"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements","url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements","name":"Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-03-15T09:30:55+00:00","dateModified":"2024-06-21T07:11:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/3b9240fa164074e2fc773e7fcd238148"},"description":"Technological innovation has sparked a new trend towards digital working arrangements. Learn more about the way work is changing in the digital era.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"de-DE","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/digital-working-arrangements#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/de"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Work in the Digital Era: Digital Working Arrangements"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/","name":"POLYAS","description":"the blog for secure online voting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"de-DE"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/3b9240fa164074e2fc773e7fcd238148","name":"Charles Harding","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"de-DE","@id":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a9eee54a942871db9227087900a40d73?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a9eee54a942871db9227087900a40d73?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Charles Harding"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.polyas.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/author\/c-harding"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/work_digital_era.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72Pnr-1bh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4575,"url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/flexible-working-arrangements","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":0},"title":"Work in the Digital Era: Pros and Cons of Flexible Working Arrangements","date":"22\/03\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week we had a look at some new and innovative forms of flexible working arrangements facilitated by digital technologies. Whilst such flexible working arrangements bring with them many benefits, they can also have drawbacks. This week we examine both the pros and cons of these digital working arrangements. Telecommuting,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Digital Trends&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Work in the Digital Era","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/work_digital_era.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4373,"url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/work-in-the-digital-era-a-brief-history-of-work","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":1},"title":"Work in the digital era: a brief history of work","date":"01\/03\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Rapid technological innovation, coupled with the rise of the service-based economy, is fundamentally changing the way we work. Work in the digital era is becoming less restricted by time and place, as companies seek to keep both employees and customers happy by offering flexibility in working arrangements and services. In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Digital Trends&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Work in the Digital Era","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/work_digital_era.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4633,"url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/digital-trends\/codetermination-digital-era","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":2},"title":"Codetermination in the digital era","date":"29\/03\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Codetermination is a corporate governance system which allows for greater employee participation in the running of a company. The system has a long history in Germany and is deeply entrenched in the country\u2019s corporate culture. Read on to learn more about codetermination in the digital era. How does codetermination work?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Digital Trends&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Work in the Digital Era","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/work_digital_era.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8679,"url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/polyas\/pandemic-and-digitisation-in-europe","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":3},"title":"How the pandemic is driving the digital working world","date":"31\/03\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The Covid-19 pandemic is turning the working world upside down. Recent weeks and months have seen radical changes to the way that work is conceived and organized in companies, associations, trade unions and other institutions. What was previously unthinkable is now a part of everyday digital working: Virtual meetings, home\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;About POLYAS&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Digitisation in Europe - How the pandemic is driving the digital world of work","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pandemic-and-digitisation.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6585,"url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/polyas\/new-election-managers","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":4},"title":"We Welcome Two New Election Managers in the POLYAS Team","date":"02\/05\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We are delighted to welcome Antonia Reichwein and\u00a0Margarita\u00a0Udovychenko on board as election managers. They started working in March and have taken on the roles of managing client and setting up elections. In an interview with the pair, we asked what was the attraction of online voting and how the first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;About POLYAS&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Interview mit Patricia Schwan - Head of Sales bei POLYAS","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Interview.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9536,"url":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/polyas\/career-at-polyas-we-have-grown-with-polyas-and-polyas-with-us","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":5},"title":"Career at POLYAS: \u201cWe have grown with POLYAS \u2013 and POLYAS with us\u201d","date":"28\/10\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"How do I get my career started? Will I be taken on? What are my development opportunities in a company? Do I fit to the team? These are typical questions at the start of a professional career, and many arise again when changing jobs. Find out in this POLYAS interview\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;About POLYAS&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Career at POLYAS","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Career-at-POLYAS.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}