AI Resource Planning Summit
Zurich (Switzerland) — 1 June 2022
On June 1st, 2022, Aspaara, a Swiss HR tech start-up, held the AI Resource Planning Summit. On this occasion, Prof. Dr. Lauren Howe delivered a keynote speech entitled “The human aspect of workforce management”. Key highlights included:
Beliefs about the future of work affect how people prepare for it – and default visions of the future of work overlook the future’s socioemotional side, risking contributing to existing gender divides. When it comes to planning for the future of work, especially in thinking about what kind of talent is fostered and recruited, we as a society may need to more explicitly think about the need for socioemotional skills in the future of work and how they might be important in a variety of jobs. If we neglect to think about these skills, then we may wander into a future of work that is more narrowly technical and less inclusive
Mindsets about socioemotional skills are more fixed, which relates to them being seen as less valuable in the future of work and likely prevents employees from developing those skills. Mindsets about new ways of working are associated with how people adjust to these new work modes. To help students, employees, and leaders develop key skills for the future and adapt to new ways of working involving greater flexibility, it is important to consider the mindsets they may hold and their effects
Some of the most attractive jobs of the future will be designed to enable employees to pursue their out-of-work passions. To attract and retain top talent, employers can take steps to ensure that their people are able to embrace their out-of-work passions. This means providing the resources that employees need – whether time, social support, or money - to pursue passions outside of work.
How we imagine the future of work ultimately shapes what we do today and thus, in part, the very world that we create. And we might use this imagination to think about how we can tap in to what makes people the best at their work to help them perform and to sustain well-being over the long term