The class unites more than ten professors from three different institutions to provide comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the future of our workplaces.

Introduction and Overview

1. Where we are: This class introduces the topic and invites you to think about the benefits and challenges of the recent technological developments
   Bettina Büchel, IMD and Rafael Lalive, UNIL

Topic 1: Revolution in Technology

1. Artificial intelligence: What machines can do now and in the future: This class provides an overview and use cases on what AI can do today.
   David Atienza, EPFL.
2. Internet of things and the link to the evolved workplace: The internet is connecting everything today. How we use this technology and what it can do for us.
   David Atienza, EPFL
3. Technology and culture: We will discuss how digitization has affected demand and supply in cultural markets, and what to expect with the next wave of technological change.
   Christian Peukert, UNIL
4. Visual extensions in the workplace: Augmented and Virtual Reality: The session will discuss various visual extensions (e.g., augmented and virtual reality) at the working place. The perspective that we will use is a behavioral one, which means that we will discuss the individual and social psychological consequences of using these visual extensions.
   Tobias Schlager, UNIL

Topic 2: Changes for Firms and Workers

1. Jobs and occupations: This class will discuss how technology affects different jobs and show how the employment structure changed in Europe over the last few decades.
   Daniel Oesch, UNIL
2. Augmentation of Work: While much attention has been dedicated to the impacts of technology-enabled automation of work, how about if the work of the future would not just be a race against the machine? This class introduces the augmentation of work as an alternative approach and discusses management and design implications.
   Benjamin Müller, UNIL.
3. Human resources policies: New technologies have shaped the way firms recruit, select and manage their employees today. We will look at this trend in the area of recruitment (e.g., the use of AI to identify job candidates on social media, automated video interview analysis) and discuss the scientific evidence for the usefulness and accuracy of these new tools and practices.
   Franciska Krings, UNIL
4. Wiring the workplace to run it more efficiently: The Quantified Self movement, which tries to enhance human intellect and physiology by means of technology, has inspired an increasing number of organizations to invest in sensors and wearable computing devices for improving well-being of their personnel or as means for anticipating potential health and safety risks at work. Certainly, this has not been done because of altruistic reasons only, but also to respond to possible financial losses from work absenteeism. In the lecture, we are going to discuss the opportunities and risks of a "sensored workplace" and deliberate about possible normative, technological, and organizational safeguards.
   Tobias Mettler, UNIL

Topic 3: Changes for Governments

1. Education curricula: This class argues that soft-skills, e.g. cooperation, emotional intelligence, etc, will become more important in the future workplace, because they are comparably less likely to be automated.  
   Camille Terrier, UNIL
2. New challenges for ethics: The digital transformation of our society disrupts our routines providing new ways of acting in the world. We can do things we could not do before because of new information technologies. Facebook might know better what we believe, value and are tending to do even before we know it ourselves. Amazon can organize the surveillance of their employees with means, repressive regimes would have dreamed about 20 years ago. New ways of acting provoke ethical questions, for which we need new answers. This session will give an overview over the ethical dimension of the digital transformation with regards to how corporations interact with their employees and other stakeholders.
   Guido Palazzo, UNIL
3. How to provide social protection? This session will focus on the way in which digitalisation and AI tools are impacting on the delivery of social protection. Can AI help jobless people find employment? Can it help governments spot benefit fraudsters?  We will discuss a few examples, focusing in particular on the potential for increased efficiency and the risks associated with these new technologies.
   Giuliano Bonoli, UNIL
4. Legal challenges: Digitalization triggers multiple legal questions. Many of them have to do with the changing work processes, especially in the fields of Taxation, Social Security, Torts and Employment Law. This section studies how to adapt laws to the digitalized work world by focussing on Social Security issues, like social protection for platform workers, safety at work, sustainable financing of social benefits, etc. 
   Bettina Hummer, UNIL

Future Workers on the Future of Work

• Debate: What have we learned? What are new challenges? Where should technological developments be steered towards?
  Live debates, videos, and position papers.
  Rafael Lalive and Benjamin Müller, UNIL