The Future of Work

The Future of Work

1. Globalization

   • Collective bargaining & working conditions
     • future of the unions?
       • Amount of employees covered by collective agreements going down
     • Worse conditions?
     • Future of permanent work?
       • Still most popular
       • New ways of working
         • What type of setups do these require from the HR department?
         • To be implemented right away or maybe later?
       • Temporary and part-time increasing
         • Young
         • Less than tertiary education
       • HR department's responsibility?
     • Weakening
       • social conflict
         • boycotts
         • social media campaigns
         • "self-organization"
         • risks for employee brand?
         • Which is better - current unions or self-organization of which effects we can't know yet?
       • Who will negotiate with the employer?
         • Even now the Finnish legislation would require employees to choose their union representative in some cases - what if there isn't such?
     • Employers' unions still strong
   • Moving new staff
     • Replacement services
   • Global population increasing & migration
     • More low-skilled jobs for immigrants despite their relatively high level of education
       • HR's responsibility?
       • New types of recruitments: no name/gender/age etc
       • How to get the best talent, not how to get the best talent from certain demografic group
   • Handling employee matters to many countries at once

2. Ageing

   • Share of 65+-year-olds going up
     • immigration
     • Special arrangements needed?
     • Healthcare sector growing
       • How do we maintain the level of employee healthcare in the future?
   • More need for caregivers

3. Technological progress

   • Doomsday scenarios
     • Change management
   • Jobs
     • More consumption --> more work
     • New roles
     • Better quality
       • Dangerous tasks to robots
       • Safer & healthier
       • Automation
       • Work-life balance
       • longer careers? happier employees? fewer accidents?
       • higher living standards
     • Worse quality
       • More IT --> limit autonomy and independence
       • Sick-leaves? Skilled people changing jobs? How to retain talent?
     • More innovation
       • How can HR support this? New working times, leading innovation. Are people able to innovate 8 hours a day?
   • New workforce
     • Older employees
     • Groups that couldn't have worked in the past
     • How to make sure these groups are considered?
   • Unemployment & polarization
     • New markets
     • Mid-skilled mostly
     • Still, more new roles emerging than old vanishing --> unemployment decreasing
       • New skills & careers
         • What kind of skills are needed in 3 years? What can we do now to make sure it exists? Company-specific training programs?
     • Higher risk for females
     • Measures to help jobseekers
     • Losers vs. gainers
     • New policies
       • Affects on HR?
     • What is HR's role? How to make sure we're not making things worse in the long run?
     • Affects minorities more
     • Public sector to incentivize companies to augment jobs rather than replacing them?
       • New possibilities for HR to affect company's profits
   • Skills gaps
     • Adult education
       • Employer's part?
         • HR's role to provide and/or organize these
       • Learning new skills
     • Where to get needed staff?
       • Employer branding
     • Apprenticeship programs
     • Retaining staff
   • New business models
     • New tools for HR
   • New diverse forms of work
     • zero hours/ on-call
     • Platoforms
     • False self-employment
       • Extending rights
         • Trainings
         • Pay
         • Working time
         • Safety & health
       • What this will mean for getting skilled workforce in the future? (restrictions in leaving)
     • New regulations
       • Enforcing the correct classification
       • Giving more bargaining power to some i.e. "freelance-type" of self-employers
       • HR has to apply these into the daily routines.
       • Social responsibility vs. the company's success - ethictsis: it responsible to risk all of the employees' jobs to pay more for one self-employed person?
   • Automating HR, less repetitive tasks
   • Employment is polarizing and inequality rising
     • How to take this into consideration when planning and hiring?
     • Fewer opportunities for less educated
   • Need for managerial training and practices
     • HR organizing these
     • Data shows that modern information-based leadership increases productivity

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