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(Resp. 9). At their organization, Resp. 2 and Resp. 9 experienced a decrease of absenteeism from
4.4% in 2007, to 0.78% in 2014, which they fully impute to NWW. Good implementation of NWW
leads to better labor productivity and vital employees, while bad implementation results in the
opposite (Resp. 12). One should also take into account the impact of NWW on very carefully
constructed social capital within organizations, where people know each other for years and shared
joys and sorrows. This changes due to NWW, where contact increasingly takes place with the use of
ICT (Resp. 7).
Resp. 7 states that NWW is a very complex term. In his own research, he mentions around 30 factors
from the mental, social, physical and virtual environment that facilitate to knowledge sharing. This is
also the case for NWW; there are many variables that eventually influence the relationship between
time and place independence of work, the organization, and the (academic) office workplace. The
same complexity and intervening variables are reported by Resp. 4.
Organizations furthermore need to think about how IT can contribute to support employees more
effectively, since the academic environment does not make use of the current technological
possibilities (Resp. 1; Resp. 3; Resp. 10). An example is supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD),
which will especially increase in an autonomous environment that the academic workplace is (Resp.
1; Resp. 3). Also younger generations want to use to use their own technologies. The academic
environment doesn’t provide this yet, which has partly to do with money, but also because decision
makers are older people that do not have the desire to bring their own technologies. There thus is a
generation gap. Besides, commercial organizations know a much more aggressive style of
recruitment
and competition, which makes they are forced to implement these changes (Resp. 10).
People thus want to decide for themselves how they want to perform their work. Both the physical
as the virtual workplace need to be made available to third parties that are relevant for your own
organization, which has consequences for security of buildings and internet (Resp. 1). Furthermore,
education will experience digitalization as well (Resp. 1; Resp. 3; Resp. 10; Resp. 16). An example of
this is the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Practical classes also can be examined
smarter online. Thereby saved time can be spent in research and one-to-one guidance or supervision
of students (Resp. 3; Resp. 10). Students will watch lectures online, which indirectly influences the
presence of teachers in the classroom (Resp. 16).
Furthermore, career paths of knowledge workers will change. People no longer work at an
organization after they are graduated until they retire. People are much more independent and have
more desire to be in direct control, which will affect the permanents of organizations (Resp. 15). This
is consistent with the increase of sole proprietors (Resp. 3; Resp. 12); more and more professors are
getting mixed jobs, thereby becoming part-time professors (Resp. 1).