Keyword: Turku Centre for Labour Studies (TCLS)

Many of the paper presentations and discussions in the research streams in the second WORK2021 conference revolved around the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to working lives, personal lives and overall development of future work during and after pandemic. The questions of post-pandemic global working life were also present in the two plenaries as well as in the several papers presented in different research streams.

In the first part of WORK2021 conference series, WORK I, discussions revolved around the major challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to people’s lives, working lives and personal living. These discussions revolved closely also to the future work life in the post-pandemic arena: how will it look like.

The WORK2019 conference organised on 14 to 16 August culminated on Friday in the closing seminar of the SWiPE consortium (Smart Work in Platform Economy), which is funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland. Launched in 2016, the project studied the transformation of work and entrepreneurship in the platform economy era.

WORK2019 conference examines the effects of digitalization on working life in a multidisciplinary and multidimensional way, with the theme Real Work in the Virtual World.