Almost one year after the starting gun was fired in April 2015 for a ‘national dialogue’ over the future of the world of work in the digital age, Andrea Nahles, Federal Minister for Social Affairs and Labor, has made a preliminary assessment, and during a new congress organized in Berlin on 15 March, announced an array of different projects. Unveiling the results of a vast study on the expectations and wishes of workers as regards both today’s and tomorrow’s world of work the Social-Democrat Minister underlined the necessity of developing a new “compromise in terms of flexibility” that would offer more security and flexibility to both employees and companies. In concrete terms, the Minister intends to implement over a medium term horizon what will be “chosen working time” as well as significantly boosting training. At the end of 2016 the Minister will publish a ‘White book’ that will combine all the proposals and solutions being developed together by key economic, political, and social agents as well as experts in the field of ‘national dialogue’.
Diverse range of expectations. In front of some 650 representatives of employers’ bodies, trade unions, and political leaders that had all gathered in Berlin, the Minister for Labor presented the results of an extensive study entitled “World of values- Work 4.0”, (Wertewelten Arbeiten 4.0), which detailed how the active members of the labor force saw their current occupational and professional situation and what they were expecting from tomorrow’s world of work in the digital age.
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