K-water inaugurated an AI lab at the K-water Research Institute in Yuseong, Daejeon, on May 12.

K-water will build a digital workplace by innovating the way work is done and creating digital work conditions to secure future competitiveness.

The digital workplace is a business strategy designed to boost collaboration, immersion and swiftness among staffers by offering platforms and services suiting future work conditions using digital technologies and optimizing work experiences and productivity.

The step is designed to not only ramp up its competitiveness by swiftly responding to changes in both personal daily lives and contactless tele-work at home, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, raising productivity in the way work is done.

K-water’s digital workplace aims to pursue more intimate collaboration, more open-minded communications, greater productivity and create more convenient infrastructure conditions.

To this end, the corporation has designated 12 detailed tasks and plans to invest 40 billion won by 2023 to finish the building of the digital workplace.

As for more intimate collaboration, digital collaboration space will be realized in a contactless era by strengthening the connectivity of diverse in-house cooperative services.

In particular, new cooperative platforms will allow the exchanging and sharing of atypical content the corporation has accumulated through work management of each project and centralization of documents.

As for more open-minded communications, an open digital communication system will be realized by upgrading the public communication platform “danbittottot,” and using various channels such as an expanded communication channel among staffers.

In particular, a smart work environment will be created in which duties are performed regardless of time and place by offering cloud-based virtual PC work conditions.

As for greater productivity, simple and repetitive work will be curtailed by expanding robotic process automation (RPA) and chatbot services for communications with inside and outside customers, while a virtuality-based data dam will be built to create added values based on data utilization and to improve productivity.

In order to create speedier, more convenient, safer IT infrastructure¸ high-speed telecom networks will be built among 120 worksites across the nation, and wireless networks will be utilized to improve work conditions.

K-water expects that the building of an environment in which work can be done in a smart and safe fashion and at any place will not only improve work productivity, but also raise staffers’ satisfaction by balancing their efficient work and lives.

K-water President Park Jae-hyun said, “We plan to promote continuity of work, convenience and productivity by building a digital workplace in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.”

K-water will create new values and its corporate competitiveness through continuous innovation down the road, he added.