Social consequences of labor digitalization

The article considers the social consequences of labor digitalization, both the formal organization of activities (in the form of options for digitalizing work processes, remote employment, etc.), and substantive activities (expressed in the emergence of new professions and the extinction of old ones, the need to master basic IT programming skills and new digital skills). Digitalization is becoming the tool that connects cognitive knowledge, technologies and the implementation of opportunities in virtual reality. Each of these blocks infl uences each other and as a result, a new format of thinking is obtained, allowing to create new conditions for social reproduction of society in the new conditions of the digital world. The results of the survey of employees engaged in digital employment (both working through digital technologies and working remotely, thanks to the use of digital technologies) are presented. The assessment is given of the positive and negative consequences of digitalization for labor activity, both for an individual and for social groups as a whole. The features of building digital communication that depersonalize social contacts and reduce the level of trust between colleagues and management are recorded, the diffi culties with the formation of group (collective) identity and awareness and acceptance of corporate culture norms are formed. The need for constant improvement of the level of qualifi cations and new knowledge and fl exible skills is indicated, allowing to solve issues right now, without delving into fundamental problems and contradictions. The conclusion is made about the construction of new social inequality through the access to digital employment options, as well as the processes of formation of digital capital, allowing to strengthen human capital in a particular industry, region or country.

digitalization, virtualization, virtualization of labor, virtual reality, digital reality, digital culture of laborr