“Design fiction” to enhance well being at work by 2040 | EUROtoday

“I love construction sites (…). To think that I almost gave up this job because of the physical problems it caused me… Since I joined Co-peint, I can rely on “cobots” [robot amené à collaborer directement avec un salarié] newest technology to hold out essentially the most troublesome duties »says in a video Guillaume, 63 years previous, constructing painter and cobot pilot in Strasbourg in 2040.

Guillaume, who discovered the best firm to proceed his career in situations suitable along with his age, is in truth a pure product of synthetic intelligence created by Marc Malenfer from the monitoring and potential division of the National Institute of Research and Development. safety (INRS) and Pierre-Antoine Marti, director of research on the Futuribles worldwide agency, to assist prevention stakeholders (occupational drugs, human sources, worker representatives) to plan for this horizon. Their work, carried out for the INRS annual potential evaluation “Work in 2040”, was introduced on November 20 in Paris.

“The consolidation of the management and governance of the prevention of professional risks and health at work is a major challenge for the coming years”, affirmed the federal government occupational well being plan 2021-2025. The duo due to this fact constructed round ten portraits primarily based on traits recognized by a multidisciplinary group of researchers led by INRS for the prevention of labor accidents and occupational sicknesses.

Their potential evaluation outlines two main developments within the administration of organizations: “platformization” pushed by algorithmic administration and, in response, the event of cooperative fashions. The constructing and public works firm Co-peint, as fictitious as Guillaume, was thus created on the premise of the remark of possible unfair exploitation of development employees by specialised platforms, and of the difficulties of self-employed employees in accessing to high quality cobots.

“Our model allows certain painters to avoid professional disintegration at the end of their career”: that is how the fictional firm Co-peint is introduced within the INRS report, which, because of its standing as an exercise cooperative and employment, permits its unbiased employees to profit from a standard social fund and to be co-owners of the cobots.

The storytelling by imaginary portraits, the “design fiction”, of the INRS reproduces and extends the dynamics at the moment at work on the planet of labor which have an effect on the every day lives of workers: automation, ageing, the diversification of employment statuses, the usage of communication instruments… Enough to dispassionate the talk on the large destruction of jobs that many predict and to query avenues for the longer term.