Purpose

Concerned with the rising social, economic and technological disruption in the world, the impact of the technological disruption had a significant impact on the future of work and it has been tremendously increased in past five years. Further, with the rising uncertainties and COVID-19 in the picture, the trends suggested by earlier literature might not hold. The purpose of this paper is to understand the evolution of technology in the workplace in the past five years, how does it stand during COVID-19, will the trend continue in light of disruption caused by COVID-19, the impact of COVID-19 on the future of work.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper uses bibliometric techniques to identify the conceptual and intellectual structure of the studies. The programming language named after authors Robert and Ross (R) software and Biblioshiny were used to identify the structures and the themes underlying those structures, which further helped in forecasting the trends of the studies.

Findings

The paper shows the drastic evolution of the studies in past few years and different technologies implemented at the workplace in the same period. It further identified the influential papers, authors, journals in the area with an emphasis on the various collaboration network among authors and countries. It also paints a picture of the impact of COVID-19 on the future of work. The paper finally concluded with future directions for the emerging trends and themes in the area in aftermath of COVID-19.

Originality/value

This paper takes the microscopic view of the studies carried out in the past five years as during the past five years, the studies related to this topic have grown tremendously and accordingly many trends have been identified but with the COVID-19 pandemic in the picture, the trend is likely to get accelerated. This paper takes this view and identifies the trends in the future by identifying the themes based on periods and at different levels – organizational, managerial, individual.

中文翻译：

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工作的未来：系统的文献回顾和主题演变

目的

考虑到世界上社会、经济和技术中断的加剧，技术中断的影响对工作的未来产生了重大影响，并且在过去五年中大大增加。此外，随着图中不确定性和 COVID-19 的增加，早期文献提出的趋势可能不成立。本文的目的是了解过去五年工作场所技术的演变，在 COVID-19 期间它的表现如何，鉴于 COVID-19 造成的破坏，COVID-19 的影响，这一趋势是否会继续下去关于未来的工作。

设计/方法/方法

本文使用文献计量技术来确定研究的概念和知识结构。以作者 Robert and Ross (R) software 和 Biblioshiny 命名的编程语言被用来识别这些结构的结构和主题，这进一步有助于预测研究的趋势。

发现

该论文展示了过去几年研究的急剧演变以及同一时期在工作场所实施的不同技术。它进一步确定了该领域有影响力的论文、作者、期刊，重点是作者和国家之间的各种合作网络。它还描绘了 COVID-19 对未来工作的影响。该论文最后总结了 COVID-19 之后该地区新兴趋势和主题的未来方向。

原创性/价值

本文对过去五年进行的研究进行了微观观察，因为在过去五年中，与该主题相关的研究有了巨大的增长，因此已经确定了许多趋势，但图片中出现了 COVID-19 大流行，这一趋势可能会加速。本文采用这种观点，并通过根据时期和不同层次（组织、管理、个人）确定主题来确定未来的趋势。