Digitization positive - but also brings stress and heavy workload

New technologies, communication platforms and constant accessibility: Digitization its way into everyday working life. Simultaneously, the stress increases, the line between work and leisure.

How to evaluate the employees? This and many other important questions after the current Edenred-Ipsos barometer to well-being and motivation of employees.

The result is causing a stir: The impact of digital development is perceived by the workers for the most part positive. So are about nearly half of (47 %) of respondents said that the autonomy is improved when working through digitization. 45 % say that the collaboration between the teams of a company benefits from having closely followed by the quality of life at work (43 %).

In addition, can be derived from the study results, but also read that many workers still find no influence - neither positive nor negative. Only 16 % of survey participants confirm that the progressive digitization negative impact on their professional life.


Work and leisure have become blurred

However, the study also shows that workers in comparison to last year, even more have the feeling that they are claimed outside working hours by working. It was in 2014 already 71 %, so it is this year, nearly three quarters of respondents (74 %), to frequently work sometimes in their spare time.

In particular, 90 % of executives confirm that this has become everyday life for them. That such a high workload leads to stress, is obvious. Consequently, also the stress factor is increased similarly to the workload outside of working hours 2015: from 6.3 to 6.6 - on a scale 1 to 10

"Employees see the digitization mostly positive, but at the same time complaining about more stress. You benefit one part of the achievement of the digital transformation such as greater freedom or greater balance between work and private life. On the other hand, they have but to fight for her feelings with a higher workload. Interestingly: Employee not do this forcibly to the digital development in the company back, "comments Christian Aubry, CEO of Edenred Germany.

Companies use the opportunities of digitization

When asked with companies have taken action with more than 100 employees in recent years in terms of digitization, answers more than one in three respondents (34 %) that the electronic management of human resources management had been introduced. Second is the virtualization of jobs (28 %), such as virtual desktops or equipment for teleconferences.

Third place was shared by two measures: the establishment of a social enterprise network and the offering of e-learning (25 % each). Overall thinks more than half of respondents (51 %) that their company was well positioned when it comes to digital progress - this result can keep up with the European average of 54 %.