The Impact of Adoption of Digital Technology on Companies for Prospective Workers

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.210121.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

workers, digitalisation, technology, wage, unemployment, education, deskilling

Abstract

This study discusses the impact of technology adoption in companies on prospective workers in Semarang city. 230 respondents consisted of graduates of colleges, high schools and vocational high schools using a simple regression model with smartPLS. The results showed that deskilling, wage, unemployment, education improvement had a significant impact on the adoption of technology in the company. The other side of the companies want to innovate and create efficiency, but it has consequences that need to be adjusted by potential workers with technological changes in the industry. Deskilling and wage have the highest impact for some of the resources in the company must be replaced with more efficient technology, and automatically unskilled labour is eliminated by the presence of new technologies. This research is expected to provide input to the world of education and the prospective workers to continue to improve the skills of adjusting era.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aryan Eka Prastya Nugraha
AU  - Indri Murniawati
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/22
TI  - The Impact of Adoption of Digital Technology on Companies for Prospective Workers
BT  - Proceedings of the Conference on International Issues in Business and Economics Research (CIIBER 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 167
EP  - 172
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210121.024
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210121.024
ID  - Nugraha2021
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