The Dark Side and the Light Side of Technology-Related Stress and Stress Related to Workplace Innovations: From Artificial Intelligence to Business Transformations

Abstract

This Special Issue provides new insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with new workplace paradigms and business transformations. Information and communication technologies (ICT) and workplace innovations have permanently modified the structural and social aspects of organizations. In addition, due to COVID-19, the trends of the future of work have undergone strong and irreversible acceleration, with consequences, in terms of new hierarchical forms, the management of tangible and intangible resources, and the use of technologies as an essential element of the workplace. All these features, in turn, pose challenges and risks for the protection of employees’ wellbeing. Indeed, the available data underline the need to rethink management models in order to adapt human resources management (HRM) and occupational health and safety (OSH) practices to the characteristics of the hybrid workplace.