The study "Healthy digital work" was conducted by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT and the Bayreuth Research Institute for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (BF/M-Bayreuth) at the University of Bayreuth. The aim of the study was to investigate how the use of digital technologies in the workplace creates strain for working people. For this purpose, 5,005 persons who used digital technologies more often than occasionally in their work were surveyed in a cross-sectional online survey in 2018/2019. The sample consists primarily of knowledge workers. In addition, a smaller reference group of non-knowledge workers was included in the study.

The study "Healthy digital work" was a product of the "Prevention for safe and healthy working with digital technologies (PräDiTec)" project. The group project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the "Gesund - ein Leben lang" funding initiative (Funding no: 02L16D034) and was managed by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA).

The dataset contains data on the following subject areas:

• Use of digital technologies at work, including characteristics of those technologies
• Digital stress
• Competencies in dealing with digital technologies
• Working and employment conditions
• Physical and mental health
• Work satisfaction
• Socio-demographic information on the respondents

More detailed information on the sample and the contents of the study "Healthy digital work" can be found in the final report of the study and in the data documentation on this page.

Available scientific use file

• Scientific Use File of the Study “Healthy digital work”, Version 1
  (doi: 10.48697/gedigar.suf.1)