TY - JOUR AU - Albano, Roberto AU - Parisi, Tania AU - Tirabeni, Lia PY - 2019/11/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Gli smart workers tra solitudine e collaborazione JF - Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali JA - cambio VL - 9 IS - 17 SE - Monographic Section DO - 10.13128/cambio-24960 UR - https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/7395 SP - AB - <p>This essay focuses on the risk of solitude of smart workers, i.e. those people who perform mobile, remotely and digitally intensive relations of work. Reduction in face-to-face interactions with organizational members can have negative effects on either their professional identity and sense of community, or their extra-work life.&nbsp;On the other side, a&nbsp;growing number of mobile workers is discovering novel social spaces and collective practices (e.g.&nbsp;Coworking Centers, Fab Labs). On the basis of a review of theoretical and research literature, and the analysis of data from the European Working Condition Survey,&nbsp;we connect the interpretation of smart working and of new digitalized practices of collaborative work.&nbsp;</p><p>Is smart working a win win solution for organizations and workers or merely a new form of intensification of work? Do the new practices of collaborative work overcome&nbsp;the risk of isolation posed by the remote work?&nbsp; Or are they perfectly complementary to smart working to reduce labor costs and share human capital? As empirical evidence does not permit&nbsp;to formulate clear answers to these questions, we try to identify trend lines for some future scenarios&nbsp;in terms of risks and opportunities.</p> ER -