HOW DIGITALIZATION CHANGES THE WORKPLACE

Tackling the digitalization challenge: how to benefit from digitalization in practice

Digitalization has been identified as one of the major trends changing society and business. Digitalization causes changes for companies due to the adoption of digital technologies in the organization or in the operation environment. This paper discusses digitalization from the viewpoint of diverse case studies carried out to collect data from several companies, and a literature study to comple...

Forging Ahead: How to Thrive at the Modern Workplace

Thriving at work is an emerging phenomenon in recent times, which is defined as a psychological state in which individuals experience both the senses of vitality and learning. Researchers and practitioners are looking for ways to enhance the employee’s thriving at work, because it is associated with behavioral outcomes. The objective of this study is to empirically investigate the impact of con...

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Automatic structural scene digitalization

In this paper, we present an automatic system for the analysis and labeling of structural scenes, floor plan drawings in Computer-aided Design (CAD) format. The proposed system applies a fusion strategy to detect and recognize various components of CAD floor plans, such as walls, doors, windows and other ambiguous assets. Technically, a general rule-based filter parsing method is fist adopted t...

When Technology Changes the Physical Workplace: The Creation of a New Workplace Identity

In recent decades, there have been many advances in digital media and technologies that have disrupted professions traditionally rooted in physical and print media as their core competency. Often, digital transformations of such professions not only change the way these professionals collectively define themselves, but also dramatically alter the physical work environment in which they have for...