Good work is about managing change in the digital age

The challenges of digitalisation are the subject of a seminar at the SAK Congress on Tuesday entitled Good Work in the Digital Age.

“Employees organised in SAK-affiliated trade unions have to accommodate various changes at work while continually developing their skills. We must consider the best way of supporting our members throughout this process,” Juha Antila says.

Antila points out that this is not the first time that employees have faced the changes that accompany progress in digitalisation and globalisation:

“What is new now is that these changes are increasingly rapid and their direction is hard to foresee. Microsoft has provided a good example of how difficult it can be, even for companies to assess their own prospects.”

After acquiring the Nokia mobile phone business two years ago, Microsoft Mobile recently announced the complete closure of its handset manufacturing operations as part of a programme of redundancies affecting 1,350 employees in Finland.

Changes in the world of work and their impact on the lives of employees will be debated in a seminar on Good Work in the Digital Age, arranged at the SAK Congress in Tampere on Tuesday.

The seminar is part of a series of SAK discussions entitled A Time of Opportunities. Aside from the effects of digitalisation, these discussions will also consider the labour market impacts of globalisation, climate change and the depletion of natural resources.

The Finnish language seminar will begin at 09.00 EET on Tuesday, and may be followed as a live feed on the SAK Congress website and on its YouTube channel.