🌍 Recent shocks show we can’t just wait for crises. Preparedness means shaping change before it unfolds.

In their new explainer, @lauranurski.bsky.social & Davide Monaco share 5 ways to explore the future of work.

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This is brilliant: a compilation of popular (business) buzzwords across decades.

Next: A sociological analysis of how these relate to the broader societal circumstances at the time of their conception?

The digital era hasn’t killed work. It’s reorganising it.

The big questions now are about coordination, control, and job quality – shaped by institutions & policy, not tech alone.

The paradox: employment shifts away from routine jobs…
…but digitisation makes even high-skill, “non-routine” jobs more routinised and subject to digital control.

This affects autonomy and job quality.

It identifies 3 vectors of change:
• Automation → replaces tasks, not jobs
• Digitisation → standardises work, increases monitoring
• Platformisation → spreads algorithmic management into regular jobs

The report shows automation (like robots) has had a modest, often positive impact on jobs.

Instead of mass unemployment, the real transformation is in how work is coordinated & controlled.

Work is not (yet?) disappearing – it’s being reorganised.

I contributed to a new JRC report that challenges myths about automation & jobs. @quiquefm.bsky.social @sergiotorrejon.com

Some highlights in this 🧵
#EconSky #sociology
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Just published: a Joint Research Centre ( @ec.europa.eu ) report on ‘Work in the Digital Era: How Technology is Transforming Work and Occupations | publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h... @quiquefm.bsky.social @lauranurski.bsky.social

🌱 Skills are seen as a fix for labour shortages and inequality, but @lauranurski.bsky.social argues that skilling alone won’t solve structural issues. True progress means tackling systemic barriers and valuing people, not just capital.

Read more in CEPS' IWD series 👉 www.ceps.eu/skills-arent...

With:
🗣️ @quiquefm.bsky.social, Joint Research Centre
🗣️ Marlene de Koning, PwC Netherlands
🗣️ Isabelle Schömann, @etui.bsky.social
🗣️ Isabella Loaiza Saa, @mitsloan.bsky.social
🗣️ @lauranurski.bsky.social

🤖🌍 Generative AI (GenAI) is one of the biggest uncertainties in the future of work.

A new report by Davide Monaco and @lauranurski.bsky.social explores its impact on jobs, from automation risks to opportunities for enhancing human capabilities.

READ IT HERE👉 bit.ly/3XvCFK6