Tens of thousands of office jobs lost in the footsteps of technology

Accounting economist, payroll and personnel administrator and financial assistants. In an analysis, the union has found that roughly half of these tasks may disappear in the next five years as new technology takes over at an increasingly rapid rate.

But lest this turn into the fact that so many people, probably tens of thousands if you want to believe the prophecy of the Union, ditch the job, those concerned must have the opportunity to change, to learn new things . And this is where the controversial latest deal between the white-collar PTK cartel and the Swedish Business Confederation comes into play, where even two LO unions during a major uproar finally got hooked, according to the Union and also PTK president Martin. Linder.

– If you just sit, there is a risk that these jobs will disappear, he says.

Study

Now it’s important to be proactive and give people a chance to change, something the latest deal makes it easy, not just during cutoff hours, according to Linder.

It notes that the agreement also grants far-reaching rights for the individual to improve their skills with financial support, in order to “strengthen the individual’s future position in the labor market and the employer’s supply of skills,” as it is called in the last deal.

– This grants powerful rights for the individual, for example, to study more in the middle of life, says Linder.

But as so many critics have pointed out, especially among many LO unions, job protection is weakening, with that employees have to pay.

– It is important to find solutions that balance each other, says Martin Linder.

Does not save

Las, whose base is last in, first out, is also not as strong as many may think. Martin Linder doesn’t want to go so far as to say that the principle is overstated, but contract listings are often made between unions and employers, based on qualifications. And if employees are outdated, perhaps the wrong skills:

– Then there is no labor protection in the world to save you, says Martin Linder, in the same way that IF Metall colleagues reasoned when they decided to abandon the LO line and stick to the agreement of the employees that from the point of view of the unions is motivated by strengthened opportunities for paid education.

Olle Lindström / TT