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Given the rapid digitalization of the world of work, this editorial discusses possible relations to job quality and shows which factors of job quality have been given priority so far. Further, it places the contributions to the special issue in the discourse of digitalization and suggests further research. We argue that digitalization does not affect all groups of employees equally and that it can have varying consequences in different (work) contexts. We are pleased about the increasing attention paid to this topic in empirical social research. The multifaceted contributions to the special issue confirm that digitalization is not a fixed construct and that it contains many different facets. Therefore, we encourage researchers to expand the empirical analysis of the relationship between digitalization and quality of work and employment in the future, to transfer studies (if possible) into the longitudinal section, to study new phenomena, and to classify them in the discourse, as well as to consider possible moderators in the future.