Employment and Labor
Definition
Labor
The workforce of an economy.
The workforce in a digital society overlays traditional employment opportunities with new and evolving opportunities for entrepreneurship and work.
Working practices
Office design
- Office design incorporates all of the functional and decorative components of the working environment.
- Many modern offices include open floor plans, flexible furniture and glass walls that allow employees to transform spaces to meet their needs in any given situation.
Twitter's office in San Francisco includes a rooftop garden, an arcade room and a musical 'jamming' space to give employees a space to unwind in if they need breaks during their work day.
Remote working
- Remote working allows employees to conduct business and complete tasks from anywhere that they are able to connect to the essential networks.
- The advantages of remote working include better work-life balances, employee satisfaction, and digitalization.
- The disadvantages of remote working include less business centralization and potential poor work performance due to a lack of observation.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many industries found that employees could work from home effectively using video-conferencing platforms and other digital tools.
