"New psychosocial challenges face workers in the digitalized arena, where the threat of stress and ill health is real and where women and vulnerable groups, including intensive technology-using professionals and managers, continue to experience the worst impacts of these threats. The use and application of new technologies in workplaces have been shown to create possibilities for reduced autonomy and privacy; intensified workloads exacerbated by the requirement for algorithmic reputation-building; an accelerated working pace and an “always-on” working environment; and threats to paid work itself as automation becomes ever more possible. Trade unions are addressing these challenges, alongside the international community and within the normative framework of the ILO."

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