The Future of (Remote) Work after Covid-19

Online workshop

19 November 2021, 9h30-15h00 CET

The ETUI has the pleasure to invite you to a one-day workshop on "The Future of (Remote) Work after Covid-19. Reflections about the challenges and possibilities connected to remote-work practices", organized on 19 November 2021.

In the course of the last year and a half, the world of work has developed a love and hate relationship with the concept of telework, and remote work more generally. As the dust of mandatory teleworking begins to settle, it is timely and appropriate to have a more sober and introspective assessment of the promises, perils, and potential of remote work in the post-pandemic world.

The conference proposes to engage with the current challenges and opportunities, and future regulatory and policy trajectories, arising from remote work practices, by exploring a series of questions pertaining to: i) Telework and remote work during and beyond the pandemic; ii) Regulating telework and remote work for decent work; iii) Trade unions and telework; iv) Remote work and the Future of Work. '

Programme

9.30 – 10.30 Session 1 – Telework and remote work during and beyond the pandemic

• Chair: Nicola Countouris, Director, ETUI Research department
• Speakers: Uma Rani, Senior Economist ILO; Abi Adams, Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, University Of Oxford; Kalina Arabajeva, Researcher ETUI and Paula Franklin, Senior Researcher ETUI
  Q&A session

10.30- 10.45 Coffee & tea break

10.45 – 11.45 Session 2 – Regulating telework and remote work for decent work

• Chair: NN, TBC
• Speakers: Aude Cefaliello, Researcher ETUI, Silvia Rainone, Researcher ETUI, Ugljesa Grusic, Associate Professor UCL Faculty of Laws
• Q&A session

11.45- 12.00 Coffee & tea break

12.00 – 13.00 Session 3 – Trade unions and telework

• Chair: Aline Hoffmann, Head of unit "Europeanisation industrial relations" ETUI
• Speakers: Juliane Bir, Head of "Trade Union Policy" ETUC, Bruno Demaître, EWC policy adviser, industriAll European Trade Union, Kurt Vandaele, Senior Researcher ETUI
• Q&A session

13.00- 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00-15.00 Session 4 – Remote work and the future of work

• Chair: NN, TBC
• Speakers: Valerio De Stefano, Professor of Labour Law, KU Leuven, Janine Berg, Senior Economist in the Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch (INWORK) ILO, Hamid Ekbia, Professor of Informatics, International Studies, and Cognitive Science and Director of the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction (CROMI) at Indiana University
• Q&A session

This event will be hosted on Zoom.

To register, please click here. The link to attend will be sent to you upon registration.