Working in the 21st century. The coronavirus crisis: a driver of digitalisation, teleworking, and innovation, with unintended social consequences

Background: this article seeks to shed a light on the innovation, digitalisation, and teleworking processes that have occurred because of the coronavirus crisis. Methods: to this end, we analyse data from Eurostat (2020), the European Companies Survey (2013; 2019) and the Living, Working and COVID-19 Dataset (2020), the latter two gathered by Eurofound. Results: our main findings reveal that COVID-19 has accelerated a process of digitalisation that has produced relevant changes in labour relations and, consequently, in companies’ organisation. Conclusions: in short, home confinement has had a profound impact on work and occupational risks.This research was funded by Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), grant number ECO2017-86305-C4-4-R. The APC was funded by UNED