July 27: Designing Jobs During Technological Change

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July 27 - For Better or Worse: Designing Jobs During Technological Change

Part I of The Job Quality Choice: Opportunities and Challenges in Job Design

Colleagues,

Increased global competition in recent decades has unleashed a new wave of technological advancement, and a new wave of predictions of technological displacement and job loss. But job destruction is not a foregone conclusion of technological advancement; in complex systems outcomes are hard to predict. Technology can replace workers or make work less fulfilling, but it can also be used to complement workers’ skills and improve wages, safety, and employee engagement. Choices about developing and deploying technology and designing new jobs all make a difference.

Employers, workers, government, philanthropy and others can play an active role in shaping how technology is used, how jobs are designed, and what the future of work will be. How does technology affect job design? What can employers and businesses do to invest in technology and their workforce to improve business performance and increase employee retention and engagement? How can workers be engaged to help shape operations and how technology is developed and used? What can we learn from human-centered design?

Join us for a virtual discussion, “For Better or Worse: Designing Jobs During Technological Change,” Wednesday, July 27, from 2:00-3:15 p.m. EDT.

Can't attend live? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.

Speakers

Ben Armstrong

Executive Director, Work of the Future Initiative, MIT @workofthefuture

Lisa Dewey-Mattia

Head of Continuous Improvement, The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey @PANYNJ

Becky Lee @rebeccalilian0

Director, IDEO San Francisco @ideo

Danielle Abril (moderator) @DanielleDigest

Tech at Work Writer, The Washington Post @washingtonpost

The Job Quality Choice: Opportunities and Challenges in Job Design

This conversation is part of our limited series, The Job Quality Choice: Opportunities and Challenges in Job Design.

Many people work in poorly designed jobs, with low wages, few benefits, no voice on the job, and limited opportunities for advancement or skill-building. But employers in every industry have demonstrated that designing good jobs is possible and beneficial to workers and employers. What can these employers and businesses teach us about job design? What incentivizes and inhibits the design of quality jobs? And what role does philanthropy and government have in helping employers to design good jobs? Join us to explore the drivers of job design, examine current challenges and opportunities around issues such as technology, skills development, and worker voice, and discuss strategies and practices that create good jobs that help workers and businesses succeed together. Conversations include:

For Better or Worse: Designing Jobs During Technological Change - July 27
The Inequities of Skills Development in the Workplace: A Discussion on Designing Work-Based Learning - Date TBD
Job Design and Employee Ownership - Date TBD

Sincerely,

Maureen Conway

Vice President

Executive Director, Economic Opportunities Program

The Aspen Institute

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