The Future of Work: Knowmads, Robots and Workertech

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The new technologies and the internet have been changing the labour market. According to the most recent OECD reports 21.7% of jobs in Spain can be automated or 4.2 million Spanish have a high probability of losing their jobs with robots.

There are many studies that are far from the alarms figure and the wealth generated by the efficiency of new technologies will lead to new recruitment, and Accenture expects that artificial intelligence investments could raise the income of organisations by 38% by 2022 and increase employment by 10%.

Irrespective of the figures and potential forecasts that may exist, labour market change is already a reality. According to FFEPS, 17% of Spanish people do jobs through platforms. Also the typologies of contracts currently changing, temporality, flexibility, independence and intermittent are concepts that have more and more weight. The number of jobs with nontraditional jobs is growing and currently accounts for 23% of youth contracts.

Knowmads Profiles; knowledge nomads

Knowmads is a neologists from the concepts’ know, know ‘and’ nomad ‘(nomadic), that’s to say’ Travellers of knowledge ‘, description from John Moravec’s book’ Knowmad Society ‘(2013).

The knowledge stands out as an innovative, creative person with the capacity to work with anyone and at any time. They are very flexible and this gives them an added value with respect to other ‘traditional’ workers who are accustomed to working in very concrete jobs and in an established physical place.

It changes how to work and changes how to learn. Social and technological changes allow ‘learning by doing’, be it the new educational methodology and collective learning takes importance. Each person can choose the sources, resources and spaces that he considers best to learn and the adaptation to the new skills and knowledge that markets demand is constant.

 

WorkerTech: Microworkers, Gigworkers, y Blue-collar workers

WorkTech: Microworkers, Gigworkers, and Blue-necklace workers The use of technological platforms also provoke new tipologies of workers and employment contracts; concepts such as microworkers (workers that do microjobs), gig workers (workers on demand), blue-necklace worker (manual workers by hour) are a global phenomene. The intermittent and digital-platform-run working relationships also lead to changes in WorkerTech services, as well as to digital trade unions, insurance, tax management and reputations management services, among many others. It should be noted that platform models are highly scalable and run by multinationals, that means that all worker support and safety services will have to be transnational as well.

For more information about the analysis generated by Albert Cañigueral ‘The Digital Labour Market for A Debate’.

Èlia Vives

Marketing

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