With the emergence of new technologies within the workplace, accelerated by the pandemic –especially in the case of teleworking–, the regulatory framework for digital rights and digital disconnection needs to be reviewed. In this context, the Business Leadership Observatory of the UPF Barcelona School of Management has prepared the study Digital Detox, an Essential Labor Right for Health, which analyzes the current state of the issue in companies across Catalonia.

The research, carried out by the director of the Observatory, Sílvia Cóppulo Martínez, and by the researcher Erola Palau Pinyana, will be presented on July 14 at 9:30 am at PIMEC as part of the #rework cycle of confeences, dedicated do the reinvention of work in the covid-19 era. The meeting will analyze through different perspectives the digital connection and disconnection and its effects and will discuss concepts such as productivity, presence, sense of relevance, conciliation, commitment and people' well-being, among others.

PROGRAM:

9:30 am – Presentation

Òscar Armengol, journalist of the Economics Department of TV3 News

9:35 am – Welcome

Sílvia Miró, Director of the Employment Area of PIMEC
José M. Martínez-Sierra, Director General of UPF-BSM

9:40 am – Study presentation

Sílvia Cóppulo, Director of Business Leadership Observatory UPF-BSM
Erola Palau Pinyana, Researcher of the Operations, Technology & Science Area and of the Business Leadership Observatory UPF-BSM

10:30 am – Regulation in force regarding digital detox

Gerard Luján, Inspector of Labor and Social Security

11:00 am – Psychosocial risks due to overexposure to digital applications

Elena Juanola, Director of Institut Català de Seguretat i Salut Laboral

11:30 am – Panel of experiences

Sara Berbel, general manager of Barcelona City Council
Sílvia Cóppulo
Erola Palau
Estrella Rincón, Director of Legal Department PIMEC
Moderated by Òscar Armengol

12:20 pm – Presentation of the results of the survey answered bu the assistants