speech on future of job market
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I would like to start by welcoming you to the EESC - home of European civil society - and would like to thank Commissioner Marianne Thyssen most warmly for accepting our invitation to take part in the dialogue we are holding here today, as well as my long-standing friend Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Office, whom I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate publicly on his recent re-election for a second term. Dear Guy, I would like to assure you of our full support and our commitment to working together with the International Labour Office on this and all other issues of concern to organised civil society, not only in Europe but throughout the world.
Dear friends,
The world of work is changing, thanks to at least four medium- and long-term structural factors which now, more than ever, are influencing the content, nature and organisation of work: demographic change, globalisation, and the economic and technological crises (in particular the digital revolution).
As our Committee has said, “These developments challenge the traditional understanding of employment, working time and place, and companies”.