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Technology, Employment and Wellbeing

About the blog

Technology, Employment and Wellbeing is an FES blog that offers original insights on the ways new technologies impact the world of work. The blog focuses on bringing different views from tech practitioners, academic researchers, trade union representatives and policy makers.

Overview

Women demonstrate at an international feminist event in Porto, Portugal, on March 8, 2026
Creator: picture alliance / NurPhoto | Rita Franca

Issue 2026/14

This issue focuses on the contributions from Gender5+.

Woman sitting alone in hall of empty red seats
Creator: picture alliance / Image Source | Walter Zerla

Issue 2026/13 – Ongoing Struggles across Old and New Frontiers

The articles in this issue may appear quite different at first glance.

A female workers with headphone on
Creator: picture alliance/dpa/TASS | Sergei Savostyanov

Issue 2025/12 – Gender Inequalities and the Reproduction of Power

This issue of the blog examines the gendered dimensions of digital technologies, showing how biases and inequalities are not just technical flaws but reflections of broader social and power structures.

Female speaker
Creator: picture alliance / Zoonar | Matej Kastelic

Issue 2025/11 – Gender, Technology, and Meaningful Progress

In light of the recent discussions at the conference Towards Gender-Inclusive Digital Policy: AI and Gender Equality in the Workplace, organised by FES Future of Work in cooperation with FEPS, the articles in this issue address the importance of...

A simplified world map made up mainly by the letter i and wifi icons
Creator: Inclusive AI Lab

Issue 2025/10 – Inclusive AI Hub

AI is playing an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the future, with its immense potential to address global challenges and transform industries.

a green mainboard
Creator: picture alliance / Ulrich Baumgarten | Ulrich Baumgarten

Issue 2025/9 – Europe's Path to Semiconductor Autonomy

Chips, or semiconductors, are the foundation of all electronic devices, driving advancements in energy efficiency, mobility, healthcare, security, and the ICT sector, including smart grids and efficient lighting.

A white megaphone on red background
Creator: Data Workers' Inquiry

Issue 2025/8 – Data Worker's Inquiry

The concept of creating machines that can think and learn like humans—simulating processes such as learning, comprehension, problem solving, decision making, creativity, and autonomy—has existed since the early days of computing.

garment factory
Creator: picture alliance / Pacific Press | Xiang Zhonglin

Issue 2025/7 – The Future of Work in the Global South

In our seventh issue of the Technology, Employment, and Wellbeing blog, we would like draw your attention to way work is changing in the Global South. The articles in this issue offer a diverse and insightful perspective on digitalisation across...

demonstration with EU flags
Creator: picture alliance / AA | Kate Green

Issue 2024/6 – Towards a Strategic Social Agenda

Earlier this year, the European Council has approved the Strategic Agenda for 2024-2029, setting forth the EU's priorities for the coming five years.

A shadow of a worker sitting alone among containers
Creator: picture alliance / Zoonar | Wosunan Photostory

2024/ Issue 5 – Algorithmic Management: in a Search for Job Autonomy

In our fifth issue of the Technology, Employment, and Wellbeing blog, we would like to centre our discussion on the growing use of algorithmic management systems in the workplace and how these systems can impact job autonomy practices in the...

Demonstration of script writers in the US
Creator: picture alliance / ZUMAPRESS.com | Gina M Randazzo

2024/ Issue 4 – Collective Bargaining and AI systems in the Workplace

In our fourth issue of the Technology, Employment and Wellbeing blog, we would like to draw your attention to the importance of collective bargaining over the use of new technologies in the workplace.

call station with female workers
Creator: picture alliance / empics | Ben Birchall

2024/ Issue 3 – Workplace Automation: Optimisation, Anxiety and Job Satisfaction

In our third issue of the Technology, Employment and Wellbeing blog, we would like to look at the ways automation technologies (such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics or robotics) not only change the content of many jobs but also can...

Several dozen food delivery people from the Colombian platform "Rappi" stage a demonstration demanding better working conditions and social guarantees, as well as fairer rates in Bogota, Colombia on March 02, 2022
Creator: picture alliance / AA | Juancho Torres

2024/Issue 2 – Platform Work Rulebook

In our second issue of the Technology, Employment and Wellbeing blog, we would like to acknowledge an important milestone in the labour protection for the EU workers in the gig/platform economy.

Protest against the Pensions Reform - Paris
Creator: picture alliance / abaca | Lafargue Raphael / ABACA

2024/Issue 1 – New Directions

In our first issue of the Technology, Employment and Wellbeing blog, we would like to present several thought-provoking posts that look on distinct areas of digitalization of work.


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