What are the new jobs of tomorrow?

3 episodes

1

Can we really imagine the jobs of the tomorrow?
2

“Jobs of the future are already here”
3

Will the web3 revolutionise management jobs?

Épisode 1/3

Can we really imagine the jobs of the tomorrow?

With Richard Robert, Journalist and Author

On July 13th, 2022

6min reading time

Key takeaways

To think seriously about the jobs of the future requires us to take a step back from the hyperbolic figures often seen in forecasts in this field.
It is through transformation and gradual development that professions emerge.
Three emerging areas stand out today: we can observe the appearance of new requirements that already exist as job functions and are in the process of giving rise to new occupations.
The first emerging area is the need to develop robots, algorithms, and AI to refine their interactions with humans.
The second area involves the ecological transitions, where jobs in the design and management of buildings, cities, vehicle fleets and natural or agricultural areas are flourishing.
A third emerging area concerns confidentiality, cybersecurity, and the ethical quality of technical devices or their relations with, today, humans, and tomorrow the natural world, starting with animals.

Épisode 2/3

“Jobs of the future are already here”

With Richard Robert, Journalist and Author

On July 13th, 2022

5min reading time

Isabelle Rouhan

Director of Colibri Talent

Key takeaways

72% of European workers think that robots will steal their jobs.
This perception is mistaken and is growing with the automation of certain jobs; it is not going to go away.
The most highly automated countries in the world, such as Germany and Japan, are also those with the lowest unemployment rates.
For the most part, if we look at the heart of jobs such as caring for people or making bread, these jobs are here to stay.

Épisode 3/3

Will the web3 revolutionise management jobs?

With Richard Robert, Journalist and Author

On July 13th, 2022

4min reading time

Adrien Book

Strategy consultant, blogger and speaker

Key takeaways

Web3 decentralises organisational power: anyone can create an ecosystem around a subject and organise people around it.
Digital communities take the form of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), which mobilize contributors through smart contracts.
In this new version of project-based management, recruitment disappears, remuneration is a collective matter, and all decisions are audited.
The main functions of management (organisation, governance, management) do not disappear but are detached from the figure of the “manager” to be reconfigured and replayed in a different way.

Contributors

Richard Robert

Journalist and Author

Richard Robert is editorial director of Telos and conducts forward-looking research as part of the Observatoire du long terme (Long-Term Observatory) and the Institut de prospective CentraleSupélec Alumni (CentraleSupélec Alumni Institute for Forward-Looking Studies). From 2012 to 2018, he was editor-in-chief of the Paris Innovation Review. His latest books include: Le Social et le Politique (The Social and the Political), with Guy Groux and Martial Foucault, CNRS Éditions, 2020; La Valse européenne (The European Waltz), with Elie Cohen, Fayard, 2021; Une brève histoire du droit d’auteur (A Brief History of Copyright), with Jean-Baptiste Rendu, Flammarion, 2024; Les Nouvelles Dimensions du partage de la valeur (The New Dimensions of Value Sharing), with Erell Thevenon-Poullennec, PUF, 2024; Les Imaginaires sociaux des smart cities (The Social Imaginaries of Smart Cities), Presses des Mines, 2025. Forthcoming: Sauver la démocratie sociale (Saving Social Democracy), with Gilbert Cette and Guy Groux, Calmann-Lévy, coll. ‘Liberté de l'esprit’ (Freedom of Thought), 2026.