Our ESRC-funded research aims to increase understanding of how digital technologies are changing work and the implications for employers, workers, job seekers and governments.
Forthcoming events
The covid pandemic and the resurgence of the shorter working week
25 May 2022
Early reflections on ongoing research investigating the rapidly-growing number of employer-led experiments with the ‘4 Day Week’, following the Covid pandemic.
Automating job interviews: Experiences and implications for job seekers
8 June 2022
How do asynchronous video interviews affect the behaviour of young job seekers during interviews, and their post-interview perceptions of self and work?
Skills for the Planetary Labour Market - Indian Workers in the Platform Economy
15 June 2022
How can governmental, private and third-sector skills training approaches be adapted to meet the needs of Indian cloudworkers?
Latest Publications
Robots at the Gates? Robotic Process Automation, Skills and Institutions in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services
Kornelakis, A., Benassi, C., Grimshaw, D. and Miozzo, M. (2022), Digit Working Paper No. 4
Inequalities in the disruption of paid work during the Covid-19 pandemic: A world systems analysis of core, semi-periphery, and periphery states
Valizade, D., Ali, M., Stuart, M. (2022) Industrial Relations
Rapid recruitment in retail: Leveraging AI in the hiring of hourly paid frontline associates during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Hunt, W. and O'Reilly, J. (2022), Digit Working Paper No. 3
Innovation Work Chains in US Retail: Automation, Tracking and AI Adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic
Stopford, N. and O'Reilly, J. (2022), Digit Working Paper No. 2
Latest Blogs
Levelling up or levelling down gig work? Three reasons why platforms are offering privatised social and employment protections
What is motivating platform firms to introduce private social and employment protection provisions for nominally self-employed workers?
Long-term care in the gig economy
Advances in digital technologies have led to the development of a flourishing platform economy in the provision of long-term personal care at home.
Guiding principles for leaders of newly formed virtual teams
Virtual teams are not a new phenomenon, so what can leaders of newly virtual teams learn from what we already know from the pre-pandemic context?
Latest news
Digit Researcher presents at Alliance Manchester Business School
Fang Lee Cook will deliver a talk at the University of Manchester on Digitalisation, Work and Employment in Emerging and Developing Economies on 10 May 2022.
Digit researcher produced short video on ‘Using Understanding Society for Employment Research’
Andy Charlwood produced a short video to help students and researchers use the Understanding Society survey
SASE pre-conference salons 2022
SASE are holding a series of pre-conference webinars beginning on 28 April.
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