Outlook

At the end of the year, Executive Vice President Roxana Mînzatu presented the Quality Jobs Roadmap.1 This key initiative of her mandate is intended to secure good working conditions across Europe, through fair wages, stable and secure employment relationships, effective occupational safety and health protection, comprehensive training and worker participation, as well as better reconciliation of work and private life.

The Roadmap is also meant to serve as a response to the challenges of demographic change and the twin transition, meaning digitalisation and decarbonisation. How the impetus for regulating AI and algorithmic management in the workplace will take shape is still unclear. What is clear, however, is that dealing with AI as a colleague will shape the European world of work just as strongly in the coming years as the debates on reducing bureaucracy. Both topics, the use of new technologies and the reduction of unnecessary regulations from Brussels, will play a decisive role in determining whether Europe‘s workplaces truly remain future-proof and attractive.