Socio-technical Trends and Drivers for the Future Workplace: Findings from Expert Interviews

Andrea Denger, Alexander Stocker, Michael Schmeja

2013

Abstract

There is an ongoing discussion in the industry in particularin the complex and dynamic automotive domain on how the workplace can be arranged in the future to best possible support knowledge work. This discussion understands the concept of the ‘future workplace’ in a holistic way, i.e. including new forms of web based technology as well as new ways of working together. Respective scientific literature has already discussed social media to play a major role for the workplace, as social collaboration, social workplace and social business are already ubiquitously used terms. But what are major trends and drivers of the future workplace? This position paper presents results of recently conducted study on the future workplace, where 16 experts from academia and industry have been interviewed, to launch the discussion on a research agenda for holistic future workplace research. The interviewed experts mentioned most notably the relevance of social media, mobility and cloud services to facilitate knowledge work.

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in Harvard Style

Denger A., Stocker A. and Schmeja M. (2013). Socio-technical Trends and Drivers for the Future Workplace: Findings from Expert Interviews . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: FWP, (WEBIST 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 617-620. DOI: 10.5220/0004494106170620


in Bibtex Style

@conference{fwp13,
author={Andrea Denger and Alexander Stocker and Michael Schmeja},
title={Socio-technical Trends and Drivers for the Future Workplace: Findings from Expert Interviews},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: FWP, (WEBIST 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={617-620},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004494106170620},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: FWP, (WEBIST 2013)
TI - Socio-technical Trends and Drivers for the Future Workplace: Findings from Expert Interviews
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - Denger A.
AU - Stocker A.
AU - Schmeja M.
PY - 2013
SP - 617
EP - 620
DO - 10.5220/0004494106170620