The health control of employees in digitization conditions

• Published in: Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny Vol. 30; no. 6; p. 1313
• Main Authors: Gurtskoy, L D, Zudin, A B, Vvedenskiy, A I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Russia (Federation) 15.12.2022
• Subjects: COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - prevention & control; Employment; Humans; Occupational Health; Occupations; Working Conditions; Workplace; workplace health; labor relations; occupational safety; digitalization of society; health management
• ISSN: 0869-866X
• DOI: 10.32687/0869-866X-2022-30-6-1313-1317

The article considers issues of health management of employees at workplace in conditions of globalization and digitalization of society, causing need to revise the labor relations. Under impact of global trends in field of digital technologies, transformation occurs concerning working environment and labor safety measures, contributing to development of new forms of interaction between employee and employer and employment models as well. The ongoing changes in society and global changes in labor market require to investigate new labor conditions, formation of system of knowledge about directions and perspectives for development of labor relations and human resources management. Nowadays, because of spreading of COVID-19 morbidity, increased attention is paid to health of employees and measures targeted to preventing morbidity are intensified. The need to work in new conditions dictates topical issues for scientific research in coming years: development of theory of new labor economy, investigation changes in paradigm of quality of labor life, well-being at workplace in conditions of digitalization of economy and formation of new employment model, digital generation of workers and new challenges in human resources management.The purpose of the study is to explore issues of health management of employees at workplace in conditions of globalization and digitalization. The implemented study permitted to conclude that problems of socio-psychological nature occurring in labor sphere in conditions of active transition to digital economy are complicated by increasing instability of labor relations and occurrence of new social economic and psychological risks at workplace that negatively effect on health and well-being of employees.