ILO Research

13/10/2026

📅 Le travail ne se limite plus à un lieu fixe. Quelles conséquences pour le droit du travail ?

Le 29 octobre, rejoignez-nous pour un webinaire avec Loïc Lerouge, Directeur de recherche au CNRS et membre du COMPTRASEC, consacré à l’évolution des frontières du lieu de travail et aux questions qu’elle soulève pour l’application du droit du travail.

Télétravail, espaces hybrides, hyperconnexion, plateformes numériques : les lieux dans lesquels le travail s’exerce se multiplient et brouillent de plus en plus la frontière entre espaces professionnels et personnels.

🕑 14 h 00–15 h 00 (heure de Genève)
🗣️ Webinaire en français
🔗 Inscription : https://www.ilo.org/fr/meetings-and-events/de-la-redefinition-de-lespace-de-travail-la-dilution-des-frontieres-et

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12/10/2026

How can lifelong learning help workers and enterprises adapt as labour markets transform?

At the 2026 Jobs and Development Conference in Hong Kong, ILO Senior Economist Verónica Escudero presented findings from the flagship report Lifelong learning and skills for the future.

The discussion highlighted some of the report’s central messages: access to quality learning remains deeply unequal; workers increasingly need broad combinations of technical, cognitive and socio-emotional skills; and effective lifelong learning systems require strong institutions, relevant training and sustained support.

The ILO special session was chaired by Haroon Bhorat, with Uta Schönberg as discussant.

Explore the report and its interactive resources:
🔗 ilo.org/lifelong-learning-and-skills-future

02/10/2026

More than three quarters of trade-linked jobs in Africa are informal. Yet informal workers and small businesses often have little say in the policies that affect them.

A new ILO Research Brief looks at how to strengthen their voice in trade and labour policy.

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Informal jobs account for more than three quarters of trade-linked employment in Africa, yet informal workers and small businesses often struggle to participate in the decisions that affect them. A new ILO brief identifies ways to strengthen their voice.

02/10/2026

📘 A new issue of the International Labour Review is now available.

The latest research examines how major forces are reshaping the world of work, from artificial intelligence and platform work to collective bargaining, inequality, care and the role of institutions.

The issue brings together new evidence and perspectives from China, Greece, Brazil and beyond.

Explore the latest issue: https://en.ilr-rit.org/issue/1963/info/

01/10/2026

🔎 Which jobs could be affected by new technologies? That’s an important question, but it doesn’t tell us whether employment will grow or shrink.

New ILO research looks at more than 1,000 states, provinces and regions across 69 countries. It finds that the mix of skills used in local jobs helps explain why employment outcomes differ. Areas with stronger demand for cognitive, basic computer, writing and management skills saw greater employment gains alongside potential exposure to emerging digital technologies.

The findings make a case for helping workers develop a broad range of skills throughout their careers, while providing social protection for those facing difficult transitions.

Read the article by Isaure Delaporte and Verónica Escudero:
https://www.ilo.org/resource/article/exposure-opportunity-why-skills-shape-employment-effects-new-technologies

21/09/2026

What if an entrepreneur could carry a business adviser in their pocket?

The ILO is piloting SABY, an AI-powered business assistant available through WhatsApp, designed to provide entrepreneurs with practical, continuous support as they start, develop and grow their businesses.

Early experience across Africa shows entrepreneurs using SABY to address everyday business challenges, from improving record keeping and staffing to developing marketing strategies and preparing for export opportunities.

Built on the ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) methodology, SABY is designed to complement entrepreneurship training and human business-development services, making ongoing support easier to access when entrepreneurs need it.

As the pilot evolves, the ILO is also exploring how AI-enabled business advice can contribute not only to more productive and sustainable enterprises, but also to better working conditions and decent work.

📖 Read the new article from the ILO Observatory on AI and Work in the Digital Economy: https://www.ilo.org/resource/article/ai-business-adviser-your-pocket-what-we-are-learning-ilo%E2%80%99s-saby-pilot

14/09/2026

Trade can create jobs. But not by itself.

New ILO research across five African countries finds broad agreement among workers, employers and governments: employment policies and social dialogue are key to turning trade and investment into better employment outcomes.

The report examines perspectives from Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Uganda, and looks at how trade and investment can better support decent work.

Read more 👇
https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/workers-employers-and-governments-agree-need-link-trade-and-employment

International Labour Organization

14/09/2026

Lifelong learning does not become real through ambition alone.

It depends on access, financing, quality, coordination and social dialogue - the things that make learning possible in practice.

ILO report explains: https://ow.ly/vO3E50YUuGF

01/09/2026

Starting soon ⏰

Join us today at 16:00 CEST for a webinar with
Veen Dubal on how algorithmic management is reshaping worker power, wage bargaining and regulatory responses.

🔗 Register here: https://www.ilo.org/meetings-and-events/worker-power-and-wage-bargaining-context-algorithmic-control

International Labour Organization

This seminar examines how algorithmic and data-intensive management is reshaping worker bargaining power in the United States, even amid periods of labour scarcity.

20/08/2026

🌏 How can trade and investment contribute more effectively to decent work and sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific?

This week in Colombo, the ILO is bringing together representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations from across the region for the Regional Seminar on Trade, Investment and Decent Work: Fostering Development in Asia-Pacific.

Through presentations, case studies and tripartite dialogue, participants are examining how trade and investment policies can deliver better outcomes for workers and enterprises, while identifying practical opportunities for stronger policy coherence, social dialogue and regional cooperation.

📍 Colombo, Sri Lanka
📅 18–21 August 2026

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