The digital era hasn’t killed work. It’s reorganising it.

The big questions now are about coordination, control, and job quality – shaped by institutions & policy, not tech alone.

The paradox: employment shifts away from routine jobs…
…but digitisation makes even high-skill, “non-routine” jobs more routinised and subject to digital control.

This affects autonomy and job quality.

It identifies 3 vectors of change:
• Automation → replaces tasks, not jobs
• Digitisation → standardises work, increases monitoring
• Platformisation → spreads algorithmic management into regular jobs

The report shows automation (like robots) has had a modest, often positive impact on jobs.

Instead of mass unemployment, the real transformation is in how work is coordinated & controlled.

With:
🗣️ @quiquefm.bsky.social, Joint Research Centre
🗣️ Marlene de Koning, PwC Netherlands
🗣️ Isabelle Schömann, @etui.bsky.social
🗣️ Isabella Loaiza Saa, @mitsloan.bsky.social
🗣️ @lauranurski.bsky.social