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Florian Kunze was invited as a guest on the ZDF program Volle Kanne in Düsseldorf to discuss how the world of work has changed over the past 25 years and what the future of work will look like. With Florian Weiss, he talks about many current topics, such as the development of telework, the 4-day week, artificial intelligence in the world of work, increasing workload and diversity.at the workplace

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As immigration reshapes workforce demographics in many Western states, we aim to understand how the inclusion of migrants in blue-collar workgroups impacts group productivity. The new article of Apostolidou and Kunze discovers an inverted U-shaped relationship between between migrant percentage and group productivity, moderated by different factors. These findings are explained by a tentative theoretical model based on subjective status changes.

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SWR: “Back to the office? No, thanks!” Many companies offer their employees the option of working from home. They even use it as an argument to attract new skilled workers, according to a recent Bertelsmann study. In contrast, there are companies that would prefer to oblige all employees to work from home again. Unfortunately for employees, they often suffer from symptoms of stress and exhaustion when they are no longer allowed to work from home. This is the result of a long-term study on…

Imagine it's an office day and nobody is at the workplace. In recent years, employees have made themselves comfortable working from home. Now some companies want to bring back the office culture. Is this far-sighted or wrong? Florian Kunze shares his view based on the Konstanz Home Office Study conducted by the Future of Work Lab at the University of Konstanz.

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Can the shortage of skilled workers be solved by recruiting trainees from abroad? Florian Kunze shares his views on this based on the Integration@Work project at the University of Konstanz in an interesting article in DER SPIEGEL

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Some US companies have started to reduce their staff and measures in the field of diversity. Florian Kunze is interviewed on the Swiss SRF 10vor10 news about whether this is a good idea or not

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Compulsory attendance at the workplace becomes popular again, although studies show that this also increases the level of emotional exhaustion. DER SPIEGEL discusses the current debate on home office vs. mandatory presence. Part of the article are current results from the Konstanz Home Office study by the Future of Work Lab at the University of Konstanz.

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To that day, women in Germany earn 18% less per hour than men. Symbolically speaking, women worked unpaid until March 6 (this year's Equal Pay Day). The new policy paper by Moser and Kunze, identifies important causes for and possible measures to close the gender pay gap. The authors show what employees themselves, their employing companies and political actors can do to reduce the gender pay gap in Germany. Click here for the Policy Paper

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Many large companies are currently trying to reduce working from home hours and reintroduce stricter on-site work regulations. Professor Kunze explains on Deutschland Radio why this is probably not a good idea. Click here for the Interview