Digital sustainability for workplace strategies

Abstract

Developing technology has made people’s lives easier for centuries and allowed them to do things that previously took up a lot of time in a shorter amount of time and with fewer mistakes. With the Industrial Revolution about 150 years ago, which can be called one of the first examples of this, production systems were partially automated and there was a significant increase in the production capacities of factories. With the electronic business systems that became widespread about 35 years ago, institutions have made their business processes more efficient and faster by carrying out on paper processes that take time to follow up and transmit to an electronic environment. Then, with the Internet technology that has developed and spread around the world, institutions and individuals can now reach their colleagues and customers wherever they are geographically. At the same time, thanks to the increasing communication speed and wide Internet network, all sectors have started to follow and adopt technological developments and innovations faster. Emerging technologies will continue to make people’s lives easier. With the digital transformation, it has become difficult to give a clear definition of the concept of working space or workplace. Digital transformation has created new forms of employment such as on-call work and job sharing, and the digitalization process has allowed working from home. With the digital transformation process, virtual working spaces such as the “digital workplace” as a business strategy that thinks customer-oriented and aims to eliminate the creativity and interaction limits of the company’s employees and the “digital working portal,” which is a means of providing communication between the internal employees positioned under it, have emerged. New structures such as the “digital working portal”, which employees can access through electronic communication devices, contain only the information of the institution they are in and carry the interaction between employees to the highest level, and which they can easily access even when they are out of the company, further deepen the blur that started with the post-industrial transformation in the concept of workplace.