Workers of the World, Connect! Tech Innovations and Organizational Change for the Future of Work(ers)

From Uber-like services dishing up physical labor to startups “taskifying” information services, tech companies shaping the platform-driven, on-demand economy have paid little attention to the value of connected workers. What could the future of work look like if tech facilitated new worker-centered organizational structures? How might we build these structures while both delivering job opportunities and supporting worker groups, even in resource-constrained settings? What are the opportunities for capitalizing on technology innovation to design new economic markets that benefit workers and more fairly distribute jobs to a global workforce? We will address these questions and more, drawing on their research to outline how technologies could be used to counter the trend toward isolating on-demand workers.

Series:
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
Date:
Speakers:
Mary Gray, Jamie Woodcock, Louise Hickman, Jacki O'Neill
Affiliation:
Microsoft Research, Oxford Internet Institute, University of California, Microsoft Research

Series: Microsoft Research Faculty Summit