Bild, the major daily publication, together with Barmer GEK health insurance and the renowned St Gallen University have worked together on a study of the effects of the increasing digitalization of the economy on the health of German employees. The good news is that people no longer see digitalization of the world of work as an abstract notion and most employees are engaged in the process. However, the flipside side is that digitalization is leading to fairly frequent levels of exhaustion, which is in turn negatively impacting family lives. Researchers carried out more than 8,000 questionnaires between July and August 2016 and the results of the study were presented in Berlin on 27 September 2016.
Digitalization, a well-known and well-loved phenomenon in the working world, but which is also upsetting family life. Thus the resumé of the study on the effects of digitalization on the health of Germany’s employees that was presented on 27 September in Berlin. It was jointly commissioned by Bild, and Barmer GEK health insurer and was carried out by the Swiss St. Gallen University. Professor Stefan Böhm, head of the study, firstly emphasized that from the answers given “digitalization has well
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