Seminar: Transforming Work: skills in automated and augmented environment

Date: June 24, 9:30 -11:30 am

Venue: Room SPINELLI 5E3, European Parliament, Brussels

About the Event

The Artificial Intelligence (especially, due to generative AI systems) creates the new possibilities of automation, robotisation and makes the work much more augmented (collaboration of humans and machines). There are fundamental changes at  the labour market and they require the adaptability of the workforce. Considering the optimisation of work, new drivers for higher productivity, challenges for better and effective human resources management – we should assess the advantages and some threats. It is important to avoid the dehumanisation of work, the redundancy of surveillance, the lack of transparency in relations between automated managers and human-workers, risky and unsafe behaviours ( due to the rule: to favour productivity over safety), workers loneliness and social isolation. All those problems can be resolved by the proper governance of the HR done by employers and due to the adequate legal and standard framework.

On the one side the employers need to have flexibility to use the new algorithmic tools for better workforce management and organisation of work, on the other – the norms and rules are really needed. It is the main topic of the report prepared by MEP Andrzej Bula for the Employment Committee in the European Parliament. Additionally, these new challenges and solutions  should be supported by the innovative changes in  educational systems. The European Commission in the Union of Skills document presented the view: how important is to prepare and adapt pupils and students as potential workers and current workers to this enormous change at the labour market coming from the AI using. It concerns all stages of education and all forms of education. 

It would be important during the event to meet needs and possibilities related to the Skills and Competences Agenda in the European Union presented by representatives of the public institutions, employers’ organisations, workers’ representatives, new technologies providers and different kind of educators.

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Contact person

Lusyne Kesziszjan, Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, l.kesziszajn@zpp.net.pl

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