3 Jul 2015

Work in the Face of Demographic and Technological Shocks

Session 2

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes looked forward for his grandchildren to an age of leisure and a fifteen-hour working week. If his predictions have not turned out to be true 85 years later, what can we look forward to for our grandchildren in 20, 50 or even 100 years’ time?

Some parameters, such as population, are already predictable. In Western countries, medical and social advances have resulted in a lengthening of life spans and an ageing of the population which is disrupting the traditional model of work with respect to both supply and demand.

Others are still debatable such as technical progress. The new technologies have revolutionised work and our societies, but will this
third industrial revolution be the last? Are we at the peak of technical progress or on the contrary at the beginning of a new era in which technology rules?

In this context, asking the question of the future of work for our grandchildren is to pose the question about their future needs and of those of 9 billion individuals. How can firms and States plan ahead? How can we avoid breaks? What can we expect?

Introduction


Andrew McAFEE

Principal Research Scientist

MIT Sloan School of Management Boston

Biography

Coordination


Bertrand JACQUILLAT

Member

Cercle des économistes

Biography

Moderator


Bénédicte TASSART

Journalist

RTL

Biography

Speakers


Hervé LE BRAS

Professor

EHESS

Biography

Laurent MIGNON

CEO

Natixis

Biography

David PASSIG

Professor

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Biography

Augustin DE ROMANET

Chairman and CEO

Aéroports de Paris

Biography

Philippe WAHL

Chairman & CEO

Le Groupe La Poste

Biography

Jianmin WU

Former Ambassador of China to France

Biography
All the speakers

Contributions

Jianmin Wu – Chinese Perspective about Work

David Passig – A possible pension-savings paradigm for a sustainable future of employees in the 21st century