On the relevance of digital transformation and remote working. How work processes and the skills of employees change people’s lives

The changes associated with digital transformation and the pandemic represent an announced but not for this less violent tsunami. It is having a real impact at the same moment on people's time and space, as well as on their increasingly mediated interpersonal relationships; and is helping to melt the boundaries between working time and free time, between public and private life. In this field, fears and hopes follow one another without one currently prevailing over the other. In this scenario, work performance is balanced between comfort and discomfort leading to forms of "demagnetisation" of work. A socio-economic model linked to material spaces and places is coming down. Offices are crumbling, company boundaries are becoming less and less defined, and working hours are crossing spaces once reserved for rest and leisure. This revolution has a not short history: it began in the last two decades of the last century, when a movement of thought was triggered that extolled the virtues that teleworking had promised, but failed delivered.