![]() ![]() Other factors include the rise of global competition, the increasing power of shareholders, which tend to focus more on short term profits, the declining power of unions, and this is led to an increasing view of workers as a cost that needs to be minimized. The second part, though, is that I don’t think the technological change is the sole reason for the shift to short term work. More rapid technological change means that skills become obsolete faster and so there’s less of an incentive for employers, and potentially even employees, to develop and maintain a long-term employment relationship. One, is that technological change is likely a cause of the shift towards short term work. ![]() And there’s many other researchers who have previously concluded that there’s not much happening here.Īnd so, this move towards short term work is relevant for today’s topic in two ways. and Canada, it’s proven to be actually quite difficult to find evidence of this trend in the past. This may seem like an obvious trend for you, but actually when you look at government labor force statistics both in the U.S. ![]() So, as already mentioned, I’ve been studying the changing nature of careers and the employer-employee relationship over the last four decades, and a lot of my work has focused on documenting the shift from long-term jobs, where there was an expectation that you would work mostly with one employer and look for internal promotions, to the shift to shorter term work and expectation of careers that would span multiple employers. So, I want to start by thanking you for coming and thinking all of you in the audience for attending this very interesting event. technology, how it’s applied in the context of jobs, and how workers can prepare for the future. In discussion with Matissa Hollister, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at McGill University, who specializes in the changing nature of work and the labor market, they’ll help us get a handle on the evolution of A.I. Research at Facebook, and Silver Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Data Science at New York University. Who better to help us understand the repercussions of the fourth industrial revolution than Yann Lecun director of A.I. coming for your job? The introduction of new technologies has transformed job markets for centuries, and today, history repeats itself as artificial intelligence, machine learning and autonomous technologies are changing jobs and shifting the ground beneath jobs that were once stable. I’m your host, Moe Akif, and today we’ll tackle a question that seems to be on everyone’s mind. Welcome to season one, episode one of Delve, a podcast from McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management where we’ll hear from management researchers and practitioners as they explore the latest ecological, social and economic challenges that we face as a society. That becomes more important than anything else. So, it’s learning to learn, it’s not learning things. And so, people need to learn the basic skills that will allow them to learn. People don’t keep the same job their entire career. ![]()
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