eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

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New Ways to Work 2000European Telework• The investigation of mechanisms to speed up the response of educational institutions to changes in thelabour markets.• Increased attention to the development of teaching and learning methods for ‘soft’ skills.• Learning packages which enable workers to move flexibly between employment and education in order toupdate their skills and knowledge continuously throughout their adult lives, including courses developedon the sandwich model.• The development of special courses aimed at the integration of excluded groups such as the functionallyilliterate, unskilled manual workers and older workers into the labour market.• The provision of technical and learning support on-line so that workers can access them on demand.• School curricula should be made more attractive to encourage students to enter IT professions.• Attention should, however be paid to ensuring what is good in our institutional traditions should beretained and we avoid ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater’ and inadvertently losing quality.Adaptation rather than complete revolution should be the aim.• Improvement in data sources and classification systems to enable the new forms of work to be tracked atsectoral and occupational levels. In particular closer collaboration should be encouraged betweenscientific institutes and official statistics offices to enable the analysis of microdata. Comparabilitybetween national data sets should be encouraged.• The development of mechanisms to speed up flows on the European labour market, including the potentialrole of temporary work agencies in the transition process.• Measures should be taken to ensure that self-employed workers and other ‘free agents’ are notdiscriminated against in the labour market but are recognised as diffusers and creative sources of newideas, new ways of working and new enterprises.• Attention to be paid to intellectual property issues to ensure that models derived from manufacturingindustry are not inappropriately applied to the knowledge industries.• Thought should be given to the relationship between on the one hand the migration of people fromdeveloping countries to jobs within the EU and on the other the outsourcing of work from the EU to thesecountries. If possible strategies should be aimed at encouraging a virtuous cycle of growth in developingcountries thus simultaneously developing the standard of living of their people and expanding markets forEuropean goods and services.- 130 -
New Ways to Work 2000European Telework7.4 Fifth International Workshop on Telework: "2000 and Beyond:the Future of (tele)work - Stockholm, Sweden: August 28 to September 1, 2000The Fifth International Workshop on telework looked at ‘2000 and Beyond’ and the future of teleworking aspart of the general work place revolution.This year’s event brough together a truly international group of teleworking researchers. Some 16 countrieswere represented, several from outside of Europe, including the USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Canada, Japan andIndia.The workshop focused on a number of key issues related to telework: Transportation; Regional development;Psychosocial effects; New ways of organising work; Management and learning; Legal rights; Temporaryorganisations.Key note speakers at this year’s event included the Swedish Minister of Industry, Mona Sahlin; Stig Fägerbornof Ericsson, who talked about ICT in China; Patricia Mohktarian from the USA, on the theme of Teleworkand Transportation; and Jeremy Millard from Denmark, who drew out the links between telework and theemerging concept of ‘eWork’. In addition to the key-note speeches, over 40 papers were presented in parallelworkshop sessions. Business seminars and PhD meetings also took place, as well as company visits and anentertaining programme of hospitality.The Workshop was organised locally by Professor Birger Rapp and took place at the Museum of MedicalHistory Eugenia, Stockholm. For more details, visit: www.Telework2000.nu- 131 -
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