Generational perspective of digital technologies at work : a topic modelling approach

Lamovšek, Amadeja (author), Uršič, Dejan (author)

The advent of digital technologies has revolutionised the modern workplace, reshaping how work is performed, communicated, and conceptualised across generations. This paper examines cross-generational perspectives on digital technologies at work, employing topic modelling (LDA) to analyse an extensive body of academic literature. Our aim is to uncover the intellectual structure of the field and explore how different generations engage with digital technologies, highlighting shared and unique experiences, challenges, and opportunities. Topic modelling has uncovered the intricate relationship between digital technologies and the workforce. Our analysis highlights the complexity of workplace digital integration and how generational groups adapt to and are influenced by these changes. This study stresses the importance of generational perspectives in the digital transformation of the workplace and provides valuable insights for managers, policy makers, technology designers, educators, and healthcare providers. Ultimately, digital technologies serve as drivers of innovation while posing ethical, inclusivity, and sustainability challenges in a multigenerational workforce.

• Language: English
• Keywords: job, digitalization, knowledge transfer, generational perspective, digital technologies, workplace, topic modelling
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 21-42
• Numbering: Vol. 34, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-177144
• UDC: 331.3
• ISSN on article: 1330-0288
• DOI: 10.5559/di.34.1.02
• COBISS.SI-ID: 231984643
• Publication date in RUL: 16.12.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Društvena istraživanja
• Shortened title: Druš. istraž.
• Publisher: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
• ISSN: 1330-0288
• COBISS.SI-ID: 4174601

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• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Generacijska perspektiva digitalnih tehnologija na radnom mjestu
• Keywords: delovno mesto, digitalizacija, prenos znanja