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Modern workplace tech linked to lower employee well-being, study finds


Thinktank The Institute for the Future of Work surveyed more than 6,000 people to discover how four categories of workplace technologies affected their wellbeing.

A hot potato: Companies love modern workplace technologies such as trackers, cameras, AI, ML, automation, and robotics. Only one of the categories was found to be beneficial to employees, and it's one that has been around for decades: ICT tech such as laptops, tablets, phones, and real-time messaging tools. Dr Magdalena Soffia, the study's lead author, told The Guardian that the problem was not necessarily to do with the new technologies themselves, but the way that they are adopted into the workplace.

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