Knowledge economy, sostenibilità e felicità

Hyperconnected labor represents a common experience for an increasing number of contemporary workers. Moreover, communication technologies enable a labor grounded on human skills (i.e. caring, sharing, collaborating, etc). But this seemingly “natural” and “friendly” mode of production has important consequences on the workers’ lives. Anxiety and technostress are the most known effects of the information overflow in which many types of workers are involved. So when they say that "immaterial" labor is a more sustainable resource for humans and biosphere, they often forget that it requires us to pay a price in terms of individual (and social) unhappiness.