TY - GEN
T1 - The future of iT work
T2 - 56th Association of Computing Machinery Annual Computers and People Research Conference, ACM SIGMIS-CPR 2019
AU - Niederman, Fred
AU - Kaarst-Brown, Michelle
AU - Quesenberry, Jeria
AU - Weitzel, Tim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association of Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/6/12
Y1 - 2019/6/12
N2 - The future of work is widely debated in terms of skills shortages, disappearing or emerging jobs, ongoing automation through artificial intelligence (AI), and what might happen if we do not have to work due to increased substitution of human with machine labor. Our goal is not to rehash these debates, but to reflect on them in terms of information technology (IT) work in particular. The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict with precision or certainty what will happen. Rather the purpose is to sensitize us toward choosing pathways and taking actions that increase the probability of the futures we would prefer and decrease the probability of future states we would like to avoid. This paper considers a number of trends and reflects upon them from the dual, potentially conflicting perspectives of IT worker and of society. We close with our thoughts on convergence of both trends and impact, and potential implications.
AB - The future of work is widely debated in terms of skills shortages, disappearing or emerging jobs, ongoing automation through artificial intelligence (AI), and what might happen if we do not have to work due to increased substitution of human with machine labor. Our goal is not to rehash these debates, but to reflect on them in terms of information technology (IT) work in particular. The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict with precision or certainty what will happen. Rather the purpose is to sensitize us toward choosing pathways and taking actions that increase the probability of the futures we would prefer and decrease the probability of future states we would like to avoid. This paper considers a number of trends and reflects upon them from the dual, potentially conflicting perspectives of IT worker and of society. We close with our thoughts on convergence of both trends and impact, and potential implications.
KW - IT identity
KW - IT professional
KW - Role of IT professionals
KW - Work
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U2 - 10.1145/3322385.3322403
DO - 10.1145/3322385.3322403
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85068740292
T3 - SIGMIS-CPR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Computers and People Research Conference
SP - 28
EP - 34
BT - SIGMIS-CPR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Computers and People Research Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 20 June 2019 through 22 June 2019
ER -