Digital Transformations at Work and Embodied Forms of Organizational Control

Digital transformation is often framed as a pathway to innovation, efficiency, and flexibility. Still, its bio-social consequences remain underexplored. This Open session invites contributions that examine how digital transformation reshapes work and embodiment through intensified surveillance, algorithmic management, platformization, and new forms of organizational control, often producing emotional exhaustion and digital fatigue. We welcome papers addressing AI-based monitoring, biometric systems, forms of self-tracking at work, and the blurring of boundaries between work and private life. Namely, how these processes reproduce inequalities, affect well-being, and the embodiment of work-related rules, and transform the self and professional autonomy across administrative, service, and knowledge-intensive sectors. By bringing together critical perspectives on labor, technology, and corporate power, this session aims to explore the sociological implications of digitally mediated work environments for the bodies, selves, and society.