The future of (remote) work after Covid-19

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", on 19 November 2021.

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 Arabadjieva, 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: Zane Rasnača, Senior Researcher ETUI
• 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: Marcus Meyer, Senior Researcher 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: Aida Ponce Del Castillo, Senior Researcher - Foresight, ETUI
• 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

For more information please see here.

This event will be hosted on Zoom. You will receive the link to attend the webinar when you register.