1. Cluster 3 Day 1 Future of Work Salzburg 21.5.2007

2. Future of Work – Day 1 Soft Skills – Elements of A New Social Contract Autonomy (see details in the next slide) Job contract Service – client orientation; accounting clients’ needs, preferences, demands Skills, competences, “informal” European contract with implications on regional policies Redistribution/taxes

3. Future of Work – Day 1 Soft Skills – Elements of A New Social Contract Increased autonomy of the employee, in terms of a portion of working time to develop personal projects to be reused within the company; the autonomy means different things in terms of professions, hierarchy levels; technology cycle; Institutional way to settle negotiations; official = job + “informal” activities

4. Future of Work – Day 1 Social Experiments – Best Practice and Examples Organisation giving time to the employees for self-development benefiting a community or the society at large Random eligibility as experiments for evaluating social policies Creating incentives for an equal split for parental leave – increasing equal job opportunities

5. Cluster 3 Day 2 Future of Work Salzburg 22.5.2007

6. Future of Work – Day 2 Networks & Communities Improving employment outcome through networks Roles of informal networks for employees – examples from Germany: Knowledge workers get access to job related information and new hiring opportunities from the informal networks; Immigrants overcoming language barriers through informal ethnic networks for accessing the jobs, as opposed to Germans who are accessing formal channels;

7. Future of Work – Day 2 Networks & Communities Improving employment outcome through networks Roles of informal networks for employers – examples IT companies relying mainly on recommendations from employees while recruiting new personnel; Recruitment for position in academic world relying on recommendations combining information received from formal and informal networks

8. Future of Work – Day 2 Networks & Communities Improving employment outcome through networks Views on the networks: Benefits for both employees and employers; Networks of skills as opposed to networks of misery; mixed networks including employed and unemployed based on common skills

9. Future of Work – Day 2 Networks & Communities Improving employment outcome through networks Questions to be considered: How to develop participation in and profit of social networks? How to provide an access of socially excluded to the advantaged social networks? Advantage = relation to labour market opportunities

10. Future of Work – Day 2 Networks & Communities Improving employment outcome through networks Technology based networks - how to do? Encourage the use of knowledge management systems (to do lists, wiki, calendar, files, chat) Collaborative networks Schools and pupils using these, substituting some activities done in school Potential use also in a workplace or in skills based communities; extrinsic motivation needed

11. Future of Work – Day 2 Networks & Communities Improving employment outcome through networks Technology based networks - how to do? Exiting/entering/incentives/effort; openness; motivation Mentored tasks will be carried on making more tangible the personal contribution Referral systems, connecting the skills networks to informal networks of the members

12. Future of Work – Day 2 Networks & Communities Improving employment outcome through networks Non-technology informal networks Digital divide as mainly age divide –youth mentoring seniors; Lack of infrastructure and access to internet of disadvantaged groups –providing access and training in public spots (Finnish example); Disadvantaged groups, not able to connect to different networks; –Using a set of tools as starting point to create a community: joint learning events (seminars, workshops, study trips), developing certain skills Not enough representation of employees’ interests –Modernised “guild system” – skill based and open

13. Future of Work – Day 1& 2 Soft Skills, Social Experiments Networks &Communities Increased capacity of individuals through –Open organisation and development opportunities (self-development in independent dependency/autonomy at working place) –Skill based communities with the purpose of people meeting their potentials through a mentoring process (including persons with different skills levels)

14. Future of Work – Day 1& 2 Soft Skills, Social Experiments Networks &Communities Thanks