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jean lievens
June 6, 2016 12:42 PM
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The digitalisation of work is creating new ways of intermediating work, with for example platforms intermediating work between individuals online. These so-called online collaborative platforms have the potential to fundamentally change the labour market, but for the moment, with an estimated 100,000 active workers or 0.05% of total employees in the EU, they do not seem to have a large impact on the offline/traditional labour market or the create/destroy impetus.
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jean lievens
January 10, 2016 4:08 AM
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Sweden is moving to a six-hour working day in a bid to increase productivity and make people happier. Employers across the country have already made the change, according to the Science Alert website, which said the aim was to get more done in a shorter amount of time and ensure people had the energy to enjoy their private lives.
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jean lievens
November 29, 2015 11:58 AM
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In the ‘gig’ or ‘sharing’ economy, technology will release you from the nine to five. But it may also bring you anxiety, insecurity and low wages
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jean lievens
October 30, 2015 3:00 PM
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This text is not a criticism to those who work in companies.
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jean lievens
October 6, 2015 3:33 PM
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The Uberisation of the workforce is changing the very nature of holding down a job. So what does this mean for the CIO role?
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jean lievens
August 21, 2015 3:16 PM
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Deloitte economists Ian Stewart, Debapratim De and Alex Cole study employment data from the last 140 years to assess how technological change has affected employment in England and Wales.
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jean lievens
August 13, 2015 11:58 AM
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jean lievens
August 1, 2015 12:09 PM
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We need to confront the changing nature of work and technology, and admit that jobs are on the line. Let's not bury our heads in the sand and let the discussion be dominated by vested interests and naysayers.
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jean lievens
July 4, 2015 3:28 PM
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Data scientist, according to a 2012 Harvard Business Review article, is the sexiest job of the 21st century. Given its authors, Thomas H. Davenport and D.J...
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jean lievens
May 20, 2015 4:16 PM
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For hundreds of years, people have been talking about machines taking jobs. Less often discussed: machines creating new jobs.
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jean lievens
April 4, 2015 4:15 PM
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Ministerio TIC Colombia (CC BY 2.0) James Pethokoukis Via The Week: The robopocalypse for workers may be inevitable. In this vision of the future, super-smart machines will best humans in pretty much every task.
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jean lievens
February 4, 2015 6:15 PM
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In this video, David Graeber, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, is interviewed about the rising idea that people have “pointless jobs” where they do not actually do much work. Graeber discusses the reasons behind these pointless jobs and claims that while they fail to make sense in a truly capitalistic setting, they do make sense within businesses where people may be more powerful if they have more people working under them. Graeber then goes on to explain why he believes a basic income could solve the problem by freeing people from these pointless jobs in order to pursue their passions.
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jean lievens
February 1, 2015 2:26 PM
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WASHINGTON – Flexible hours. Being your own boss. The glories and self-bootstrapping pride of entrepreneurship.
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jean lievens
June 6, 2016 11:38 AM
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Bosses play no role in fostering a sense of meaningfulness at work -- but they do have the capacity to destroy it and should stay out of the way, new research shows.
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jean lievens
January 4, 2016 12:48 PM
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In the ‘gig’ or ‘sharing’ economy, technology will release you from the nine to five.
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jean lievens
November 2, 2015 3:25 PM
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We perform empty tasks to protect the status quo of the one percent Hell-bent on endless wealth multiplication and profit enlargement The fruit ...
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jean lievens
October 30, 2015 2:59 PM
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Deutsche Bank announced plans to eliminate 35,000 jobs from its payroll over the next two years as part of a sweeping overhaul under new co-Chief Executive John Cryan.
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jean lievens
September 17, 2015 12:30 PM
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Robert Reich revisits John Maynard Keynes prediction about the future of work and shows what is necessary to make his vision happen.
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jean lievens
August 19, 2015 3:32 PM
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Study of census results in England and Wales since 1871 finds rise of machines has been a job creator rather than making working humans obsolete
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jean lievens
August 11, 2015 3:36 PM
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The writing is on the wall: the robots will take our jobs. Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots, explains the implications for the capitalist system.
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jean lievens
July 24, 2015 2:45 AM
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jean lievens
July 4, 2015 1:20 PM
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mostlysignssomeportents: David Graeber, who wrote last year’s incredible Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has an extraordinary essay up called “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs,” which explores the phenomenon of people in productive industries...
Humans and machines are teaching each other how to do more together than they could do alone.
Via Leona Ungerer
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jean lievens
March 21, 2015 4:24 PM
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The books interview: The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’, talks to Stuart Jeffries about ‘bullshit jobs’, our rule-bound lives and the importance of play
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jean lievens
February 3, 2015 6:29 PM
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The necessity of production is so easily proved that any hack philosopher of industrialism can fill ten books with it. Unfortunately for these neo-economist thinkers, these proofs belong to the nineteenth century, a time when the misery of the working classes made the right to work the counterpart of the right to be a slave, claimed at the dawn of time by prisoners about to be massacred. Above all it was a question of surviving, of not disappearing physically. The imperatives of production are the imperatives of survival; from now on, people want to live, not just to survive.
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