On the 20th of April 2021, the interdisciplinary online workshop "Digitalisation in Employment Relations", organised by the IAAEU, took place. Guest speakers from the field of law were Prof. Dr. Daniel Ulber and Ass. Jur. Adrian Bromme, along with Prof Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer and Dr. Ulrich Zierahn as guest speakers from the economics workgroup. A large group of attendees, namely the directors of the institute, as well as the research assistants of both workgroups and other attendees, partly from the University of Trier participated in the workshop.
Dr. Ulrich Zierahn commenced with a presentation evaluating the "Effects of Digitalisation on the Working World" from an economic perspective. This was followed up by Ass. Jur. Adrian Bromme, who talked about the legal conditions of further training of employees in response to changes in activity profiles as a result of digitalisation, titled "Digitalisation as a Challenge for Personnel Trainings".
In the second part of the workshop, Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer assessed from a sociological perspective the progression of digitalisation in the past decades, in a presentation titled "A decade 4,0 Discourse - a Mid-Term Evaluation of the Digital Shift in Work Life". The workshop was concluded by Prof. Dr. Daniel Ulber, who lectured about the topic of "Challenges of Digitalisation for Working Hour Laws“, specifically focussing on the subject of removing of boundaries between work and leisure due to technical possibilities through digitalisation. Each presentation was followed up by animated discussions between lecturers and attendees. Both the presentations and the concluding discussions lead to interesting insights into the contrasting areas of research.
The organisers would like to thank all lecturers and attendees for their contribution and involvement.