Corona has accelerated the technological change in the world of work.
In a survey, a majority in Germany sees more advantages than disadvantages.
The results in detail.
In an international comparison, employees in Germany consider their jobs to be particularly secure.
According to a labor market study published on Wednesday by the consulting firm PwC, more than every second respondent (53 percent) feared that automation would endanger many jobs.
At the same time, however, only 22 percent reported that they feared for their job in the next five years.
After Great Britain (19 percent), this was the second lowest value in any of the 20 countries examined.
In India, on the other hand, 76 percent of those surveyed expected that their
job would become superfluous for technological reasons
.
Europeans tend to be skeptical about job prospects
In the “Hopes and Fears 2021” survey in Germany, 54 percent of those surveyed said they were “enthusiastic and confident” about the change in the world of work, but for their own children this figure has already dropped to 41 percent.
In other regions such as China, India or the USA, people were more confident.
Like most Europeans, Germans were rather skeptical that job prospects * could improve in the future.
Only 44 percent were of this opinion.
Only the British and Japanese were more skeptical.
German employees are most likely to expect changes in the world of work due to a lack of resources and
climate change
.
35 percent see technological breakthroughs as a global trend, but are in last place when compared to other countries.
The people in South Africa in particular expect major changes here.
Around a third of the survey participants in Germany rated their own digital skills as
insufficient
for their own work in the Corona crisis
.
A majority of two thirds agreed with the statement that it is your own responsibility to develop your own skills.
Older employees in particular also expect support from employers, for example with retraining.
Future of the world of work: Mixture of face-to-face and home work desired
When asked about the future ideal working environment, the Germans showed themselves to be friends of mixed forms between presence and virtual completion of their tasks (41 percent).
Like other Europeans, the Germans, with a percentage of 38 percent, were less open than people in Asia or the USA
to doing their work mostly remotely.
In Germany, however, only 21 percent want to work exclusively at a workplace specially set up for them.
The bond with the workplace is even stronger in France, Poland and the Netherlands, among others,
with approval rates above 30 percent.
In Singapore, on the other hand, only 14 percent of respondents attach particular importance to an external workplace.
Like the Japanese, German employees place more value on
data protection
than in most other countries.
In this country, only 28 percent thought it was okay to have their work performance monitored technologically.
In addition, only 26 percent wanted to grant their employer access to personal data, for example on social media.
Younger people in particular associate the increasing opportunities to work from home with concrete improvements in their personal life situation, as another survey by the digital association Bitkom shows.
Those who can work from home are more
free in their choice of
where they live, they can possibly live greener, cheaper or closer to friends and family.
Of the 25 to 34-year-old respondents, however, only 29 percent planned a specific move, and even fewer in the older age groups.
(dpa) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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