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"On November 20, the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs met for a presentation by the Irene Mandl from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EUROFOUND) on a project on "New forms of employment relationships". Please find a summary below."

In the context of the European Employment strategy, the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs, the Grand Coalition for ICT Jobs, and specifically in its 2012 EMPLOYMENT PACK, the JRC-IPTS is conducting research to inform policy makers on some of the new forms of work and pathways to employability mediated by the internet.

OECD sur Twitter : "In which countries are self-#employment rates highest? Surprised? Read more here https://t.co/L2Iu2Zi704 OECD #stats https://t.co/BGSyNdwBwJ"

"Previous technological innovation has always delivered more long-run employment, not less. But things can change"

"Pour rester employable, nous devrons tous, à l'avenir, développer une culture de l'auto-formation basée sur les compétences et les aptitudes valorisées par le marché du travail. Comment apprendrons-nous en 2030 ? Comment le digital impactera nos pratiques individuelles de formation? Quelle sera la place des ressources pédagogiques libres et autres MOOC dans notre formation tout au long de la vie? C'est à ces questions que le groupe de recherche, The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), rattaché au centre de recherche la commission européenne (JRC), s'est penché lors d'un atelier à Séville les 29 et 30 avril 2013, durant lequel une vingtaine d'experts ont planché sur les scénarii possibles."

Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment, is the latest Citi GPS report from the Oxford Martin School and Citi. It explores trends in automation and points to sluggish job creation caused partly by increasing automation, and argues that secular stagnation in the digital age can only be avoided by a shift towards inclusive growth. Technology at Work marks the start of a new programme of research supported by Citi, the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment.

Le business de la "sharing economy", c'est encore beaucoup la précarité des "employés".

"WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO UNIONIZE, GIG ECONOMY WORKERS RISK EXPLOITATION. BUT ORGANIZING 21RST CENTURY WORKERS IS NO EASY FEAT."

"As a result of the internet, new technologies, the huge increase in mobile or home working, part-time jobs and today's 'always on', 24/7 culture, we found that most people now spend more time working than sleeping. In fact by 2015 around 40% of the total workforce will be mobile. The reason for this is that work is no longer where the office is but for mobile workers it is wherever they are - be that their car, home, coffee shop, the airport, customer site or even on holiday. This is just one area our report identifies as having a massive impact on the way we work;" explains Richard Watson. Other factors covered in the paper include: Ageing workforces: By 2050 over 65's will represent around 50% of the working population in Europe Millennials and Gen Y: More tech-savvy than any other generation The generation gap: Millennials think senior management do not relate to them and use autocratic command and control structures Gender: The huge economic impact of getting more women in the workforce especially at senior levels. Eliminating the gap between male and female employment would boost GDP by 9% in US, 13% in Eurozone and 16% in Japan (Goldman Sachs). Mobile working: By 2015 new technologies mean 1.3 billion (or 40%) of the total working population will be mobile Security of Information: Workers will have their own devices (BYOD) and potentially work remotely creating huge security and data storage/retrieval challenges. Where will new talent for workforce come from? Talent scarcities worldwide mean that by 2030 the USA will need to add over 25 million workers to its talent base to sustain economic growth and Western Europe more than 45 million.

Each of the four quadrants describes a different kind of organization, with different approaches to strategy, talent, and work: - Current state. Work resembles today, with similar technological connections and work arrangements, relying heavily on regular full-time employment. - Today, turbo-charged. Technology evolves, but management and workplace arrangements evolve more slowly. Traditional work relationships are supported by faster, better, and cheaper technology and systems such as personal devices and cloud-based human resource information. - Work reimagined. Here, new employment models evolve to include platforms, projects, gigs, freelancers, contests, contracts, tours of duty, and part-timers, but largely supported slower-evolving technology. - Uber empowered. An accelerated cycle of technology advancement and more democratic work arrangements fuel one another. New work and technology models include on-demand artificial intelligence, extreme personalization, and secure and accessible cloud-based work repositories.

"Laws protecting workers from employers' out-of-hours emails ignore the fact that, for many, switching off is not an option"

"DOING GOOD CAN BE GOOD FOR YOUR COMPANY. VOLUNTEERING BUILDS SOFT SKILLS IN YOUR TEAM, WHILE THEY HELP BUILD COMMUNITY AROUND THEM. Debbie Feit had always wanted to give back, but with two children and a career, finding time was a problem. Then her employer offered a solution: to celebrate its 40th anniversary, employees were given an opportunity to take a month-long sabbatical at the charitable organization of their choice. She jumped at the chance."

"Amazon may be singular but perhaps not quite as peculiar as it claims. It has just been quicker in responding to changes that the rest of the work world is now experiencing: data that allows individual performance to be measured continuously, come-and-go relationships between employers and employees, and global competition in which empires rise and fall overnight. Amazon is in the vanguard of where technology wants to take the modern office: more nimble and more productive, but harsher and less forgiving."

Une perspective intéressante dans un article de GigaOm. Il y est indiqué que chez Amazon, les "cols blancs" reçoivent tout simplement le même traitement que les "cols bleus". "Don't be surprised at how Amazon treats its workers" https://gigaom.com/2015/08/18/dont-be-surprised-at-how-amazon-treats-its-workers/

Higher level vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. What type of training is needed to meet the needs of changing economies? How should the programmes be funded? How should they be linked to academic and university programmes? How can employers and unions be engaged? This report synthesises the findings of the series of  country reports done on skills beyond school.   Chapter 1. The hidden world of professional education and training Chapter 2. Enhancing the profile of professional education and training Chapter 3. Three key elements of high-quality post-secondary programmes Chapter 4. Transparency in learning outcomes Chapter 5. Clearer pathways for learners Chapter 6. Key characteristics of effective vocational systems

The Future Workplace identifies four workplace trends that employers should develop action plans to address : - The downfall of 'workaholism' - the rise of daydreaming (donner au gens du temps, de l'espace, les outils pour imaginer plus) - the downfall of masculinity - the rise of "returnment" (qui va remplacer the "retirement" : les personnes agées vont être encouragés à rester au travail ou à y retourner)

"Companies around the world are dreaming up a new generation of technologies designed to monitor their workers-from Amazon's new employee wristbands, to Uber's recording whether its drivers are holding their phones rather than mounting them, to "Worksmart," a new productivity tool that takes photos of workers every ten minutes via their webcams. Technologies like these can erode workplace privacy and encourage discrimination. Without disregarding the importance of those effects, I want to focus in this post on how employers can use new monitoring technologies to drive down wages or otherwise disempower workers as a class. I'll use examples from Uber, not because Uber is exceptional in this regard - it most certainly is not - but rather because it is exemplary."

'L'annonce par la ministre du Travail du big bang de la formation professionnelle a fait l'objet de nombreux commentaires, qui ont généralement souligné la mise sous tutelle des partenaires sociaux et des régions par l'Etat et le transfert de l'apprentissage aux branches professionnelles. Toutefois, l'avant-projet de loi, baptisé « pour la liberté de choisir son avenir professionnel », contient une autre disposition particulièrement préoccupante pour l'avenir des relations de travail. En effet, dans la version présentée au Conseil d'Etat début avril 2018, l'article 6.III, annonce laconiquement que « A l'article 6321-1, le deuxième alinéa est supprimé… ». Or ce second alinéa structure depuis de nombreuses années le cadre de la subordination salariale en tant qu'il fait obligation à l'employeur de veiller au maintien de la capacité à occuper un emploi"

"I've seen people pass out, hit the floor like a pancake, and smash their face open," a worker at Tesla's "factory of the future" told the Guardian in a report published this week. "They just send us to work around him while he's still lying on the floor." The Guardian report described long hours and intense pressure to meet CEO Elon Musk's production goals-even if that means enduring or ignoring injuries. Since 2014, according to the report, hundreds of ambulances have been called to the factory to treat workers. This portrayal doesn't quite jive with Musk's world-changing vision. And Tesla isn't only Silicon Valley company facing this type of irony. Technology companies' reputations as employers often stem from how they treat highly paid engineers, but many also employ thousands of blue collar workers. Tech workers at these companies receive high pay, elaborate perks, and progressive workplace policies, but blue collar workers for the same companies often work in circumstances that look much less...