Technology, employment and work organisation

Enrique Fernández-MacÃas 1

European Commission’s Joint Research Center, Seville

I would like to say a few words on what I think is the elephant in the room in the debates on the impact ofdigital technologies on employment: work organisation.1. The unit of automation is tasks, not jobs. In the majority of cases, jobs are not only bundles oftasks. There is a lot of uncertainty and indetermination in productive processes, and mostworkers are required to be able to deal with that uncertainty on top of the bundle of tasks thattheir job may entail. But even the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence […]

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