Technological Discrimination of Employees Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic and in the Post-Pandemic Period: Labour Conflicts of Express Digitalization and their Solutions

Abstract

Purpose: This chapter aims to test the existing argument in favour of technological discrimination of employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-pandemic period from the position of labour conflicts between express digitalization and their solutions.

Design/methodology/Approach: The review of the existing sources of research literature shows that their scientific basis for building a clear idea of labour conflicts between express digitalization and their solutions is not sufficient. To fill this gap in the system of scientific knowledge, we use the method of comparative analysis of statistical data. The research objects are the level of technological revolution, level of digitalization, and level of unemployment in the United States and several other countries.

Findings: The results of the research show that digitalization has a large impact on employment and the labour market; in particular, it is a precondition of not only new opportunities for creating new jobs but also increasing the current level of unemployment. Still, it should be noted that the data on the impact of digitalization on the creation of new jobs are rather contradictory.

Originality/Value: It is proved that express digitalization leads not only to the emergence of labour conflicts at the level of companies but also to a large level of unemployment around the world.

Citation

Bagdasaryan, I.S., Golovko, A.G., Barinov, E.E. and Ponezhin, M.Y. (2022), "Technological Discrimination of Employees Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic and in the Post-Pandemic Period: Labour Conflicts of Express Digitalization and their Solutions", Popkova, E.G. and Chatterji, M. (Ed.) Technology, Society, and Conflict (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 30), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-832320220000030007