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Will the Pandemic Bring Industrial Revolution 4.0 Closer to Home?

Human & Technological Resource Management (HTRM): New Insights into Revolution 4.0

ISBN: 978-1-83867-224-9, eISBN: 978-1-83867-223-2

Publication date: 16 November 2020

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic has, in a matter of months, changed the ways in which people work around the world. It has created a revolution in work from home, and brought to the forefront technologies such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence. In doing so, it has created conditions for challenges to ideas of managing people and work that emerged, along with the first offices and mills, in the very different world of the First Industrial Revolution.

The technologies that have enabled a rapid switch to alternative ways of work and study were already long in place. In this chapter, I look at the rise in adoption of these technologies set against a backdrop of the history of work from home, and argue that the global pandemic has possibly hastened the downsizing of the traditional office, and the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Choudhury, S. (2020), "Will the Pandemic Bring Industrial Revolution 4.0 Closer to Home?", Kumar, P., Agrawal, A. and Budhwar, P. (Ed.) Human & Technological Resource Management (HTRM): New Insights into Revolution 4.0, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 157-166. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-223-220201009

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