The Future of Work
The OECD and GPAI work on evidence-based policy recommendations the help countries adjust to AI’s impact on the world of work.
The OECD and GPAI help governments and businesses to adapt to AI’s impact on labour markets and people’s lives
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming work, presenting opportunities and challenges for employment, job quality, and workplace dynamics. The OECD and GPAI’s work analyses AI’s effects on job markets, workplace practices, and hiring processes while exploring how the technology can empower workers, enhance job inclusiveness, and improve health and safety standards. They emphasise the importance of education and training initiatives to equip today’s and tomorrow’s workforce with the right skills for an AI-integrated economy.
For the OECD, policy work looks at AI’s impact on the job market, the workplace and hiring practices, or labour market matching.
Select OECD reports and publications
- Algorithmic management in the workplace: New evidence from an OECD employer survey (February 2025)
- Training Supply for the Green and AI Transitions: Equipping Workers with the Right Skills (December 2024)
- How is AI changing the way workers perform their jobs and the skills they require? (November 2024)
>> Find out more about the OECD’s work related to AI and the world of work.
The GPAI Future of Work (FoW) Working Group
The GPAI’s FoW Working Group has a mandate to:
- Conduct critical technical analysis on how the deployment of AI can affect workers and working environments and how workers and employers can better design the future of work.
- Address how AI can be used in the workplace to empower workers, how employers and workers can prepare for the future of work, and how job quality, inclusiveness, and health & safety can be preserved or even improved.
- Include a focus on the education and training needed to prepare the future workforce.
***Disclaimer: The reports in on the archive page were planned before the integration of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in mid-2024. Consequently, the report was not subject to approval by GPAI and OECD members and should not be considered to reflect their positions.
GPAI expert reports 2024
- Generative AI and the future of work global dialogue: Perceptions and prospects, Roundtables in Asia, Europe, and Latin America (December 2024)
- Empower AI Workers (EAIW): Worker AI Adoption, Usage, and Regional Differences (December 2024)
- Fairwork Amazon Report 2024: Transformation of the Warehouse Sector through AI (June 2024)