Research summary
Digital technologies can easily erode our work-life boundaries by involving constant connectivity and posing privacy challenges. As Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work and in Life, Dr. Ariane Ollier-Malaterre is investigating how individuals can control their own use of technologies to better align with their needs and values.
She and her research team are analyzing how people perceive digital technologies, what strategies they apply to regulate their use of them, and what the potential consequences of digital regulation are for workers, organizations and societies. She and her team are focusing on four phenomena that reflect the significance of the digital regulation in our evolving societies: remote and hybrid work; employee surveillance; algorithmic work; and state surveillance of citizens. Ultimately, they hope to learn more about how social media, algorithms, artificial intelligence and other technologies may change the nature of work as well as interpersonal relationships at work and in life.