Where do you see the Future of Work going? Slide reel.

1. 14 January 2016
The
Future
of Work
Policy Forum

2. JOIN THE DEBATE!
The
Future
of Work
WHERE DO YOU SEE THE
FUTURE OF WORK GOING?

3. The Honourable
MaryAnn Mihychuk
Minister of Employment,
Workforce Development,
and Labour - Canada
“
To help workers meet the challenges of
a changing world of work, the
government should offer adequate
training (and re-training) programmes,
promote apprenticeships and remove
punitive requirements for accessing
social safety nets.

4. Janina Kugel
Chief Human Resources Officer and Member
of the Managing Board of Siemens AG
“Digitisation is already changing almost every
job. We get things done much faster, but the
world is also more complex than ever. This
requires a new ‘horizontal’ leadership, where
decisions can no longer be taken isolated from
the top.

5. David Plouffe
Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy, Uber
“On-demand technology platforms will give
people more control over their jobs and
their lives, offering flexible work that
empowers them to decide where, when
and for how long they work.

6. Ms Irene Wennemo
State Secretary to the
Swedish Minister for
Employment
“
Modern labour markets are
increasingly dynamic, but the benefits
of flexibility should be coupled with
effective policies to fight inequality and
ensure that workers have sufficient
access to upskilling opportunities and
adequate safety nets.

7. Lisa Lynch
Interim President
and Maurice B.
Hexter Professor
of Social and
Economic Policy,
Brandeis
University
“While technology has certainly transformed
the workplace, there is a more multifaceted
explanation for growing wage dispersion,
job polarization and stagnant median wages
that should inform policies for producing
skills that are complementary to technology,
trade, and organizational innovations.

8. Eli Noam
Paul Garrett Professor of
Public Policy and Business
Responsibility. Director of the
Columbia Institute for Tele-
Information, Columbia
University
“Better jobs for fewer people
”

9. Giuseppe Recchi
Executive chairman
of Telecom Italia
and Fondazione
Telecome Italia
“I do not see the future of work in its
replacement or displacement by
technology but in the complementarity of
humans and machines. Smarter machines
and smarter people can complement each
other to create a mass of customized
products and services: the world of new
artisans.

10. Guy Ryder
ILO Director-General
“Technological advance will create
turbulence in job markets and transform the
very nature of where and how we work but
its ultimate impact will depend on our
capacity to manage change in the best
interests of society.

11. The Rt Hon Priti Patel
Minister of State for
Employment – United
Kingdom
“
”
Employers also have
a big role to play for
people with health
conditions.

12. Michael Nelson
Internet-related global
public policy,
CloudFlare
“The dramatic reduction in the cost of starting a
digital business due to Cloud computing, social
media platforms, broadband, Big Data tools,
and easier outsourcing options means that
more and more people will live in the “Gig
Economy,” hopping from job to job and
company to company every year or two.

13. Brent Wilton
Director of Global Workplace Rights, Coca-Cola
“For better or for worse, work is likely to
be more flexible, temporary and
dispersed.

14. Marie-Gabrielle
Ineichen-Fleisch
State Secretary of Economic
Affairs, Switzerland
“We need to develop
VET at the tertiary
level but also improve
permeability with
academic education.

15. Marco de Rossi
Internet
entrepreneur,
Founder of
Oilproject
“Technology allows to mix skills from
different fields - my company was born
mixing Italian Literature with Php Web
Development. New professions will emerge
from unexpected combinations of Human
Arts, Artificial intelligence and Natural
Sciences.

16. Augustin Verlinde
Founder of Frizbiz
“
We are looking towards a more flexible, more
independent, more collaborative way to work. It will be run
by a generation with new values, and new expectations.
Our generation wants to lead their life, and work smarter.
To make it possible, we need smart regulation for a smart
development. New technology and digitisation will help
this work transition, and make the best use towards higher
value and digitised opportunities.

17. Ms. Andrea Nahles
Federal Minister of Labour and
Social Affairs - Germany
“
There are a number of things that the government
can do to adapt to the changes brought about by
digitalisation, but I expect employers also to accept
their responsibilities. (…) New businesses need to
play the game and be socially responsible. Let’s not
create a parallel universe in the world of work

18. John Evans
General Secretary, TUAC -
Trade Union Advisory
Committee to the OECD
“
The risks of growing insecurity,
polarisation, inequality and job
displacement are real. But this is not
inevitable: with enlightened policies and
effective institutions, technological change
and digital innovation can raise job quality
and meet the massive unmet needs of the
global economy.

19. Philip Jennings
General Secretary of UNI Global Union
“
It’s time for the world of digital
capitalism to take the impacts on jobs and
social justice seriously.

20. Mr. Thomas Perez
Secretary of Labor – United
States
“In the United States we need
to make sure that economic
growth results in shared
prosperity

21. William Spriggs
Chief Economist to the
AFL-CIO, Professor of
Economics at Howard
University
“
The great challenge of technology to labor markets
and equality is brought about from policies keeping
unemployment high, wages and the collective voice
of workers low. This will turn technology from
advancing society as it did in the middle of the 20th
Century to rent seeking, lower labor standards and
wages in the 21st Century if we do not change our
policies soon.

22. Jacques van den Broek
CEO and chairman of the
Executive Board of Randstad
Holding nv
“The future of work will bring radical
change for talent, companies and society,
a change where the digitalisation is
disrupting many traditional approaches
from education to employment; we all
need to be prepared, start today by having
an agile plan, act on it and adapt - not
easy but it can be done.

23. Mr. Nkosi, Sango Phathekile
Holomisa
Deputy Minister of Labour –
South Africa
“How can we extend
comprehensive social
security to the entire
workforce?

24. Bernd Liepert
CIO, KUKA AG and
President euRobotics
“Robots will work with people, enabling them to realize
their full potential while also reducing boring and
physically demanding tasks. Facing a decreasing and
aging workforce, robots are the only means to increase
productivity and to offer more rewarding job
opportunities to our workers. Future generations will be
robotic natives. They will naturally work with robots as
we do today with computers and smartphones.
Robots will assist and interact with
people in their everyday lives at
home, at public places and at work,
increasing quality of life.

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Future
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