Traditionally organized on the basis of public monopolies or, more rarely, private quasi-monopolies, the postal and telecommunications services are faced with the triple challenge of a technical revolution, the opening up to competition and the globalization process. The scope and rapid nature of these changes at the dawn of the information society are having a profound and lasting effect on the management of human resources. This fascinating report has been prepared by the ILO for the tripartite meeting on the subject held in Geneva in April 1998. It reviews the new distribution of the roles between the public authorities and enterprises, and their effects on employment, training and retraining of employees, as well as on labour relations, remunerations, and the participation of workers in the process of change. Ordering Info Back to Top Symposium on Multimedia Convergence.
Information is their common product, the hallmark of the post-industrial society.
This report of an ILO Symposium on Multimedia Convergence summarizes the wide-ranging discussions of experts from government, industry, trade unions and academia in a series of twelve panels on critical issues facing multimedia development in the future, among them, implications and challenges of an information society, employment trends and kinds of work, skill levels and training requirements, and labour relations in the information age. The report includes a debate on the role of the ILO in this rapidly expanding sector.