Lifelong learning and the fourth industrial revolution
It is still widely accepted that today’s technological advances require a strategic approach to lifelong learning, by increasing the volume and flexibility of human capital to deliver greater individual and shared prosperity.
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New Methods to understand the labour market in the digital economy
As part of the Digital Futures of Work Programme, we brought together over 30 experts from Europe and Asia to discuss new methods to improve our understanding of skills anticipation, job redesign, and labour markets in a context of rapid digital innovation.
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The curious absence of a coherent digital skills policy in the UK
The impacts of digitalisation on skills are, at best, muted in current UK policy debates. Given the importance of digital technologies, why is this? What follows will argue that there are two key reasons.
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The future of no work?
At the very beginning of my journey, I was crowing with the flock that “disruption is here”. Armed increasingly with worrying labour market skills data, I pushed same bandwagon that a fundamental skills gaps required quick education, institution, and government intervention.
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The emergence of the digital labour market and its perils
Rapid digital innovation is transforming how people look for jobs and how companies recruit. Digital tools give job seekers new ways of describing themselves and employers new sources of data on candidates, in real-time and at low cost. But are there hidden perils?
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Living, learning and working in the digital archipelago
When countries across the world went into lockdown due to the pandemic, the shift to online operations was a challenge for many. In Finland, this was not the case as Finland is highly digital, but more importantly, remote and hybrid working models in Finland are rooted in a culture of societal trust.
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The future of work is distributed: the challenge of our time
The owner of a small business has difficulty hiring executives to support his firm’s pivot to digital. This is in Singapore, where locals aspire to join large transnational corporations or the public sector.
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Looking for a shelter against automation? Your boss might be part of the answer
There is a lot of discussion about robots taking our jobs. Much of it is speculative, usually forecasts based on the opinions of AI experts, who tend to be too enthusiastic about the potential of digital technologies.
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There’s a lot at stake in the future of work: a reminder that technology is not destiny
All industrial revolutions are characterised by changes in the nature of work. This is not just a change in the types of jobs people do to earn a living – from farm labourer to factory worker to computer software engineer, etc.
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