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Newsroom Feature: Future of Work										Related Pages
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**Ongoing and accelerating changes are shaping the future of work. What does this mean for worker safety, health, and well-being? The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)’s Future of Work Initiative seeks****to better understand and address both new and long-standing worker safety, health, and well-being issues as the workplace evolves. Learn more about the future of work.**
The future of work is rapidly evolving due to changes in the workplace, work, and workforce. Examples include increases in remote work and non-standard work arrangements; emerging technologies and associated job displacement; shifting demographics; job and economic security; and up- and re-skilling needs and gaps. Driven by advances in industry, the future of work movement is also marked by the accelerated pace of developments connecting people, places, and things, and has created both opportunities and challenges with implications for worker safety, health, and well-being. As a result, innovative and responsive occupational safety and health strategies are needed.
**NIOSH *Total Worker Health® Approach***
One evidence-based occupational safety and health strategy to examine and address changes in the future of work is the *Total Worker Health*® (TWH) framework. TWH recognizes work as a social determinant of health and offers an integrated and holistic approach to protect and advance worker safety, health, and well-being. This approach also improves our understanding of and capacity to address factors that present possible risks to today’s and tomorrow’s workforce, leading to empowered workers who thrive and contribute productively at work and at home.**NIOSH Future of Work Initiative**
Responding to the evolving needs of workers, NIOSH introduced its Future of Work Initiative in 2019 with a vision to prepare the occupational safety and health ecosystem for a safer, healthier, and more productive future. To assist in this effort, members of the NIOSH Future of Work Group have:
Developed future of work priority topics and sub-topics to serve as a cornerstone and guiding framework for research and practice-based activities.
Published a foundational paperexternal icon describing the Initiative and its priority topics.
Issued the NIOSH Future of Work Initiative Research Agenda framing pressing workplace and work issues expected to impact the safety and health of tomorrow’s workforce, across jobs, occupations, and industries. Research and practice goals and objectives that may also inform policy and capacity-building are offered.
Launched a webinar series featuring NIOSH researchers and external experts to inform and engage audiences on fundamental future of work priority topics and sub-topics.
Introduced a NIOSH Science Blog future of work series to accompany the webinar series and offer readers a snapshot of each of the future of work priority topics.
Rising to the Challenges and Opportunities Presented by the Future of Work: NIOSH Introduces its Future of Work Initiative
The Role of Organizational Design in the Future of Work
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Future of Work
The Role of Demographics in the Future of Work
The Role of Technological Job Displacement in the Future of Work
Guest-edited a special issueexternal icon on the future of work and how strategies and approaches such as *Total**Worker Health®* and healthy work design and well-being principles can examine and address these.**Additional NIOSH Future of Work Activities**
NIOSH expanded its existing future of work-focused portfolio by launching the Initiative to centralize and coordinate efforts Institute-wide. Check out some of the additional NIOSH future of work activities from other NIOSH Programs and Offices:
The NIOSH Occupational Health Equity Program published a commentaryexternal icon highlighting the need for a paradigm shift to a biopsychosocial model of health to effectively address persistent occupational health inequities and challenges associated with the fundamental reorganization of the world of work.
The NIOSH *Total Worker Health®*Program developed the NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ), which can be used to assess changes in workers’ perceptions about employer policies, programs, and practices as the organization of work, demographics, and workplaces of the future evolve.
The NIOSH Office of Research Integration established a Strategic Foresight Initiative to lead related activities and build awareness and capacity at NIOSH and beyond. Recordings are available for the October 2021external icon and January 2022 installments of the *Foresight Friday @ NIOSH*webinar series.**Read More about Future of Work Research at NIOSH**
Future of Work Initiative: Resources List | NIOSH | CDC
							
					
						Page last reviewed:  April 20, 2022					Content source: 	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health homeNIOSH Newsroom
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