Socio-economic assessment of the possibilities of ways to develop production as a result of digitalization

The article describes a new approach to solving the complex socio-economic problem of employing production workers released as a result of automation. It is shown that in modern conditions, it is possible to achieve a harmonious combination of social and economic results of production automation by synthesizing the activities of two systems: a production system whose activities are devoted to the production of products (the effectiveness of which, among others, is determined by the number of released workers as a result of automation) and a creative system whose activities are aimed at involving released workers in increasing the creative potential of the production system. It is demonstrated that specific forms of enterprise synthesis are determined by the presence of proven solutions in one or another variant of the existence of "creative enterprises", including a promising form of "ergodynamic cooperatives".