Recently, changes in working life have become a prominent topic in academic researchas well as professional literature and public discussions. It has been recognized thatthe contexts and conditions of work have become more transient and unpredictabledue to global changes and megatrends related to, for example, migration, techno-logical developments, and transforming values and lifestyles as the world becomesincreasingly interconnected through the flows of information, workforces, materialsand ideas (see e.g. Blommaert 2013; Gratton 2011; Sarangi 2011). In light of thistransformation, changing working life can be seen as a cluster of change processes thatinfluence the labour market and workplace organizations in various ways.
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