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Esade Barcelona · Wednesday 30 April of 2025 · 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The digitalization of work is transforming jobs, and their quality is being threatened, especially with the appearance of new forms of work. Although the digitalization of work offers business opportunities and enables greater flexibility for companies, it can also lead to greater precariousness by allowing greater discontinuity of work, uncertainty of working conditions, unpaid work, work-life imbalance, extension of work surveillance through tracking technologies, overlapping forms of discrimination and loss of bargaining power. Moreover, digitalization potentially hinders the collective dimension of labor relations, favoring more social and professional isolated work environments.
The DigitalWORK project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, aims at addressing the lack of comprehensive treatment in the regulation of the issue. The project will allow the generation and advancement of knowledge and the identification of solutions for one of the most important challenges of our society, which is the digital transformation of work.
The seminar aims at analyzing the promises and perils of the digital transformation of work, by analyzing the business opportunities derived from the digitalization of the workplace and the perils associated with digital technologies.
10:00 a.m. Welcome and presentation
Jorge Castiñeira, Dean of Esade Law School
Anna Ginès, Associate Professor of Labor Law at Esade and leading investigator of the DigitalWORK project
10:10 a.m. Artificial intelligence, promises and threats for the future of work
Uma Rani, Senior Economist at the Research Department at the ILO
10:50 a.m. The costs of human labour behind automation
Antonio Casilli, Professor of Sociology at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
11:30 a.m. Coffee networking
12:30 a.m. Propiedad y monetización de los datos personales de los trabajadores
María Luz Rodríguez, Professor of Labor Law and Social Security at Castilla-La Mancha University
01:30 p.m. Closing remarks
Raquel Serrano, Associate Professor of Labor Law and Social Security at Barcelona University and leading investigator of the DigitalWORK project