When Algorithms Hire and Fire – UNI Global Union
- December 11, 2018
- Laura Monti
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Take a second and consider whether you would you have your job if an algorithm had been in charge of hiring you?
Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, & the Futures of Work – Turing Institute
- November 20, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Future scenarios, Highlight, Industry 4.0, Reports
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The Alan Turing Institute publishes a landscaping report: ‘Data science, artificial intelligence and the futures of work’ by researchers Sanna Ojanperä, Neave O’Clery, and Mark Graham, for their research programme in Economic Data Science.
Skill Shift: Automation and the Future of the Workforce – MGI
- November 15, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Future scenarios, Reports, Skills, Workforce Resiliency
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Demand for technological, social and emotional, and higher cognitive skills will rise by 2030. How will workers and organizations adapt?
Work in the Digital Age – An Essential Read
- October 23, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Digital Equality, Future scenarios, Industry 4.0, Policies, Workforce Resiliency
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In times of great uncertainty, Max Neufeind, Jacqueline O’Reilly, and Florian Ranft’s new volume Work in the Digital Age: Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Newly Released – World Economic and Social Survey 2018: Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development
- October 10, 2018
- Laura Monti
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The World Economic and Social Survey 2018 reviews the advances in frontier technologies – automation, robotics, electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies
Decent Work Complements Environmental Sustainability Says #WESO2018 – ILO
- September 22, 2018
- Laura Monti
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The future of our economies, societies, and jobs depend on a stable and healthy environment. Some 1.2 billion jobs, or 40 percent of total world employment mainly in the Global South
4 Predictions for the Future of Work – WEF
- July 17, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Dialogue Series, Future scenarios, Industry 4.0, Skills, Workforce Resiliency
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I contemplate the future of work on a daily basis in both my professional and personal life. As a father of four children from four to 14 years old, and as a citizen of the world
Watch Live: Good Work in the New Machine Age – RSA
- July 4, 2018
- Laura Monti
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From robotics that can pick and pack goods in warehouses with acute precision, to algorithms in healthcare that can diagnose cancers as accurately as trained pathologists
Flexibility in the Gig Economy: How Workers Manage Time on Online Piecework Platforms
- June 27, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Digital dividends, Future scenarios, Industry 4.0
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Gig economy platforms seem to provide extreme temporal flexibility to workers, giving them full control over how to spend each hour and minute of the day.
Decent Work in the Gig Economy?
- June 24, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Conversations, Future scenarios, Industry 4.0, Skills
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The future of work is approaching more quickly than most people might have guessed. The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0, is upon us, altering the way we live and work.