Building a shared vision for human-tech collaboration
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Human and technology: two perspectives on the future of work
In today’s fast-changing economy, technology is advancing at speed, but the survey findings in the Industry Landscape Report make one thing clear: while digital capabilities are vital, they do not stand alone. Human skills remain equally critical. Together, they form the foundations of a workforce ready for the future.
Human and technology: a complementary skillset for the future
In today’s fast-changing economy, technology is advancing at speed, but the survey findings in the Industry Landscape Report make one thing clear: while digital capabilities are vital, they do not stand alone. Human skills remain equally critical. Together, they form the foundations of a workforce ready for the future.
Skills gap and opportunities: What our survey tells us about the future of work
As organisations across Europe embrace advanced digital technologies (ADTs), our survey gathered insights from over 300 professionals across 14 countries. The findings are clear: employees are ready and motivated, but gaps in training, communication, and strategic alignment could hold organisations back from fully realising digital transformation.
The Index: assessing the complementarity between new technologies and human skills
In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, understanding the interaction between human skills and emerging technologies is essential. That’s why the TechConnect initiative is focused on developing tools that assess how well these two elements (human capabilities and technology) work together in practice.
Rethinking human-tech skill complementarity
“A dynamic, multi-level synergy between human skills and technology capabilities, in which both reinforce and support each other across task, role, team, and organisational contexts, enhancing task performance and organisational efficiency.
This complementarity depends not only on the functional attributes of the technology and the alignment of human skills but also on environmental factors, organisational support, and user behaviours related to active/passive technology usage.”
Bridging the gap: rethinking skills in the age of human-tech collaboration
As digital transformation accelerates, the conversation around the future of work is no longer about whether machines will replace humans, but how they can work together. The TechConnect project is addressing this shift head-on with a groundbreaking conceptual framework: Human-Tech Skill Complementarity.
ESCOX: the new skills extractor tool
In today’s fast-changing job market, staying aligned with the right skills is more important than ever. Yet identifying what skills are in demand, and how they connect to actual jobs, is still a challenge. Traditional keyword searches often fail to capture the complexity of job descriptions or match them to recognised taxonomies like ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations).
Rethinking Human-Tech Collaboration
The Human-Tech Skill Complementarity Conceptual Framework (D1.1) is a vital step towards understanding the critical interplay between human skills and emerging digital technologies, focusing on the ‘affordance gap’—the disconnect between how new technologies are intended to be used versus how they are used in practice.