The impact of COVID 19 on digitalization of organizations

Abstract

The COVID 19 epidemics has influenced the pace of digitalization in the society and organizations. This paper discusses the impact of COVID 19 circumstances on digitalization of organizations. Certainly, it can be argued, that the COVID 19 epidemics speeded up the process of digitalization of organizations through increased remote working in organizations. Despite increasing the amount of remote working, this is only a part of the entire spectrum of possible digitalization of organizations, which is commonly expressed under Industry 4.0. This paper treats COVID 19 as an accelerator and at the same time as an inhibitor of the digitalization of organizations. The paper lists several recommendations, how to further increase the level of organizational digitalization, going beyond remote working.