Skills-shift: navigating the future of work

Digitalisation, robotisation and automation are changing the
nature of jobs at an unprecedented rate. Newly emerging
technologies are not only reducing the jobs performed by humans
but also transforming the way people work. EU economies are
undergoing a significant transition leading to the displacement
of workers across all industries and workers find themselves in
need of reskilling and upskilling to switch to jobs which are
high in demand. 

The European Commission has named 2023 as its European Year of
Skills with the stated goal to give fresh impetus to lifelong
learning, empowering people and companies to contribute to the
green and digital transitions, while supporting innovation and
competitiveness.

In the new Skills series of The Sound of Economics, we discuss
how we can utilise upskilling and reskilling initiatives to
protect vulnerable groups of the workforce, how to build a
resilient workforce and a create better functioning EU labour
market. In the first episode of the series, Giuseppe Porcaro sits
down with Duygu Güner and El Iza Mohamedou to discuss the
critical importance of reskilling and upskilling, examining the
obstacles workers face in adapting to this new reality, all while
exploring the pathways to achieving a resilient workforce.

This podcast was produced within the project “Future of Work and
Inclusive Growth in Europe“, with the financial support of the
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.