“…As advanced technologies progressively enter modern workplaces (Cascio & Montealegre, 2016;Day, Paquet, Scott, & Hambley, 2012), it is assumed that there will be less manual labour, whereas the amount of technology-based planning and control activities will increase (Bonekamp & Sure, 2015;Parasuraman, Sheridan, & Wickens, 2000). As a consequence, the role of the human operator is said to become that of a flexible task-switching overseer who is mainly responsible for supervisory control of working processes and troubleshooting when the automation fails (Dombrowsky & Wagner, 2014;Kassner et al, 2017;Sheridan & Parasuraman, 2005). Even though there is no commonly agreed on definition of Industry 4.0 (Hofmann & Rüsch, 2017) and the current status of the implementation of modern technologies in the industrial sector is heterogeneous (Schlund & Pokorni, 2016), the way in which the introduction of new technologies and new forms of human-machine interaction affect psychosocial working conditions and, consequently, employees' mental health has already become a matter of debate (Cascio & Montealegre, 2016;Dombrowsky & Wagner, 2014;Oborski, 2004).…”