As a result of digitalization many things can be done at locations other than one s regular place of work Jobs are being flexibilized Will the impor tance of the office tower decrease The organization as the social connecting link is still in vogue There s nothing more important in daily working life than personal exchange The fact that the workplace and its design are receiving a different quality with short business channels less silo thinking and optimal means of communication for cross functional and cross location exchange is a positive development The reason for Silicon Val ley s success for instance lies in the fact that people seek to be in close touch with and talk to each other We re seeing this in the new work methodology in software development experiencing it in small start ups as well as in small and medium size com panies but not yet in all large corporations In day to day work algorithms and machines are increasingly taking over decision making process es Are we progressively moving down the chain of command I d caution anyone to have too much faith in tech nology most machines and algorithms are not as intelligent yet as we always assume them to be Most of the things we delegate to them are routine tasks However algorithmic assistance systems are gradually beginning to play a part in more com plex decision making processes for instance in HR recruiting using diagnostic tools Plus in the future there ll be fewer checking and control pro cesses by humans Systems in industry such as predictive maintenance and condition monitoring automatically detect problems and reduce defects However the higher level tasks of process control communications coordination and improvisation cannot be delegated to machines In aviation for example many systems today are already running autonomously but especially the most recent air di sasters have shown that it will continue to be neces sary for pilots and air traffic controllers to keep an eye on everything and be able to intervene in crit ical situations We should therefore look at algo rithms and machines as tool but not believe that they can make entire decisions and ultimately even think for us Will the day come when humans are able to view robots and AI as equivalent colleagues or even accept them as bosses We tend to ascribe human traits to machines and programs in order to humanize them but robots and cobots only execute what they ve previous ly been taught They can neither think nor autono mously solve problems or develop emotions That s why I think that s nonsense What do you think of the idea of classifying ro bots or computers as electronic persons and to require their owners or operators to pay separate taxes for them We shouldn t discuss additional taxation of capital expenditures because that s actually what taxation of robots would amount to When we re discussing tax reforms it would be better to think about raising taxes for specific corporations especially the ma jor internet companies and closing tax loopholes The interviewer Project tasks changing clients remote work Oliver Jesgulke who conducted the interview has already arrived in the new working world Although he s not sitting on a beach in the Caribbean digital tools have been enabling him since 2012 to optimally combine work and family life as a freelancer The fact that he practically just knows the grueling rush hour traffic in Berlin from hearsay is a positive side effect 89 Outlook

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