How can rural areas benefit from New Work and from digitalization? This is the question that Fraunhofer IESE is addressing together with six other partners in the research project Digital Teams.
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“It’s time to live and work where and how you want!” This is what Fraunhofer IESE has been working on since 2017 in the project Digital Teams: The overall goal of this project is to counteract the rural exodus in Germany by improving employment opportunities in rural areas. A consortium consisting of Fraunhofer IESE, Microsoft Germany, Insiders Technologies, Welance, and the Institute for Technology and Work (ITA) sees the solution in the use of “Digital Teams”, i.e., working groups that are virtually connected to each other. Specifically, an ecosystem platform is to be developed to enable virtual collaboration. It is to be shown that working in virtual teams is possible with the support of modern ICT, without any loss of job satisfaction or productivity compared to local teams.
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