The International Labour Organization(ILO) Global Commission on the Future of Work published a report at its headquarters in Genevaon Tuesday, which revealed a human-centered agenda needed for decent and sustainable work opportunities for all, marking the official start of the ILO’s Centenary year.

Seeking to contribute to delivering the 2030 Agenda, in particular Goal 8 on decent work and economic growth, the report strengthens the social contract by placing people and the work they do at the center of economic and social policy and business practice. It proposes increasing investment in people’s capabilities, institutions of work and decent and sustainable work. 

“New forces are transforming the world of work: technological development, climate change, demographic shifts and globalization,” the report indicates. These transitions call for decisive action to unlock the opportunities that these changes bring.

The report also calls on governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations and international institutions to cooperate at higher levels of trust, common purpose and coherence than exist today. It believes that all stakeholders shall take responsibility for building the future of work.

The ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work undertakes an in-depth examination of the future of work that can provide the analytical basis for the delivery of social justice in the 21st century.