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Work and Skills: background reports, surveys and support materials
  • eEconomy – work and skills
  • Document: References and literature to the Work and Skills Domain
  • Recommendations: Work and skills – policy and research recommendations
  • Work and Skills good practice cases 119 cases relevant to Work and Skills in the Information Society

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Work and Skills in the European knowledge society

The Work & Skills domain is the first domain of the Beep project and presents key lessons for electronic work environments in terms of

  • skills and competencies employees need,
  • the work processes they engage in and
  • the quality of their working life.
The case studies that can be retrieved through this site demonstrate how workers and management can profit from the use of ICT.

Solvision and The Vision Web: flexible work in a virtual office (Netherlands)
How a Dutch SME grew to success by allowing a flexible working pattern to evolve through the use of ICT. Some innovative attitudes to profit sharing as well as work sharing make this an interesting case ...Click here to read more

 
The backbone of digital work is the electronic network that facilitates information exchange: an intranet, backed up by databases and connections to the outside world, developed in cooperation with the employees to ensure high degrees of usability. To use this network well, employees need to acquire the necessary skills, sometimes referred to as e-skills. Moving their activities outside the physical building, tele- or mobile working, as well as e-learning allows workers to exchange information with ease wherever and whenever. Also, flows of information can potentially be captured, structured and exchanged as organisations engage in Knowledge Management. These five issues are analysed within the domain Work & Skills with use of the Beep Knowledge system.
 

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