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The Future of Work in the Digital Transformation – Agility, Lifelong Learning and the Role of Employers and Works Councils in Changing Times

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Author / Publisher: Johann Christian Jacobs, Henning Kagermann, Dieter Spath
Series: acatech DISCUSSION, Joint publications
Published: 28 September 2017

The digital transformation will result in fundamental changes to work and organisational processes within companies. These changes must be shaped in a way that benefits businesses and employees in equal measure. The HR-Kreis (HR Working Group) – a forum for Human Resources Directors and academic experts created in 2014 by acatech and the Jacobs Foundation – identified three aspects that are critical to this goal: organisational agility, a wider understanding of lifelong learning and the innovation-oriented development of company-level co-determination.

In this acatech DISCUSSION, the HR Working Group sets out the key challenges in these three areas and formulates proposals as to how corporate policy, statutory regulations and co-determination procedures can be developed in order to achieve a successful transformation. The observations in this report are based on the belief that employees should have their own individual say in shaping the digital transformation. This will require a new form of governance that promotes a willingness to embrace change and creates the freedom to experiment.

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