Commission "Work of the Future"

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The commission “Work of the Future” , set up on the initiative of the Hans Böckler Foundation in 2015, was a commission of experts that examined the challenges and possible paths for the design of future work and presented its work results to the public in a report in 2017. In this way, it was also intended to provide “impetus for debates in politics, trade unions and companies”.

The commission consisted of 34 members who came from academia, board members and works councils of large companies, trade unions and ministries as well as from the digital and creative industries. The chairmanship was held by Kerstin Jürgens (sociologist, University of Kassel ) and Reiner Hoffmann (chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions and chairman of the board of directors of the Hans Böckler Foundation ). The constituent meeting took place on May 22, 2015 in Berlin. In spring 2017 the Commission presented its final report.

project

The commission met several times until spring 2017. She should primarily focus on two questions: “What will the work of the future look like? What new design tasks is labor policy facing? ”The main topics of their conferences were atypicality, unemployment , work and life, health , youth , qualification, digitization / technology / Industry 4.0 , quality of work, working hours, income , migration and ecology , which against the background of developments regarding aging, feminization, digitization and changing values ​​were discussed.

Addressees

The work results of the commission are aimed at companies, collective bargaining partners and politics. At the same time, the Commission wanted to contribute to the public debate on the work of the future. In its own presentation, the commission wanted “above all to stimulate reflection in companies, among collective bargaining partners and in politics with orientation knowledge and specific design proposals”.

Preliminary work

The range of topics that the commission dealt with was also defined in the volume Arbeit der Zukunft, edited by Reiner Hoffmann and Claudia Bogedan . Many of the committee members have already contributed to this anthology.

Final report

The 256-page final report by Kerstin Jürgens , Reiner Hoffmann and Christina Schildmann under the programmatic title Transforming Work! Food for thought issued by the “Work of the Future” commission opens up for future tasks in a way that is amazing for the traditional workers' organization.

The seven chapters - 1. Employment, 2. Income, 3. Qualification, 4. Working hours, 5. Work organization, 6. Migration, 7. Society - are designed according to a uniform, three-stage scheme: Starting with the determination of the current situation, “Where are we? “Lead them with the question“ What should we prepare for? ”To the practical question“ Where can we start? ”.

The authors are already breaking new ground in the opening chapter on “Employment”, in which they formulate a “New Employee Concept” and a “New Company Concept”. According to this, those who are not personally dependent in the digital economy, but are factually and economically dependent, should also be included as “employee-like persons”. In the light of traditional trade union ideas, the “commitment to diversity” in the chapter on migration is also remarkable. The discussion about the active role of the state culminates in the plea for a " revival of the social market economy that lives up to its name",

The Federal Agency for Political Education has included the volume in its program.

Reviews of the final report

Members

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report by Deutschlandfunk dated May 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ Website: Idea and Goal
  3. ↑ Brief introduction to the members
  4. ↑ Kerstin Jürgens / Reiner Hoffmann / Christina Schildmann (eds.): Transforming work! Food for thought from the Work of the Future Commission . transcipt, Bielefeld 2017, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Website: Who are the results of the Commission's work aimed at?
  6. ↑ Reiner Hoffmann, Claudia Bogedan (ed.): Work of the future. Use opportunities - set limits. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2015.
  7. ↑ transcipt, Bielefeld 2017,
  8. ↑ Kerstin Jürgens / Reiner Hoffmann / Christina Schildmann (eds.): Transforming work! Food for thought from the Work of the Future Commission . transcipt, Bielefeld 2017, p. 204.
  9. ↑ Order number: 10244. Digital edition: [1] .