All resources: digital labour + digital divide + artificial intelligence + gig economy + data protection + algorithmic management

Joint study

One in four jobs at risk of being transformed by GenAI, new ILO–NASK Global Index shows

The refined global index of exposure to Generative AI offers policymakers a vital tool for managing the impact on work.

Media Advisory

ILO to release comprehensive new index on how generative AI affects jobs worldwide

The report offers the most comprehensive global analysis to date of how generative AI may impact the world of work.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025

Transforming Indonesia’s workplace health and safety through AI innovation

The fourth ILO artificial intelligence (AI) and the world of work forum aims to explore how AI and digitalization reshaping occupational safety and health in workplaces worldwide.

Safety + Health for All

Cambodia embraces AI and digitalization for safer and healthier workplaces

Cambodia observed the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, reaffirming its commitment to creating safer, healthier workplaces in the digital age.

AI and Work

Digital transformation is pivotal to achieving the goal of universal social protection

This article explores how digital technologies, including AI, are enhancing the delivery and inclusiveness of social protection systems – while also highlighting the risks, governance challenges, and equity considerations they raise. Drawing on...

Youth employment

Kenyan Youth Harness AI to Tackle Unemployment

A youth-driven AI hackathon in Nakuru, Kenya, supported by the International Labour Organization, empowered young innovators to design tech-driven solutions to unemployment, ranging from digital farming advice to inclusive online learning platforms.

Uganda’s pilot opens doors for youth and refugees to the digital economy

ILO supported Online Gig Work pilot programme equipped over 200 youth and refugees in Uganda with essential digital skills, paving the way for income generation and greater inclusion in the global gig economy.

BRICS Brazil

The ILO calls on BRICS to strengthen efforts on social justice as groundbreaking LEMM declaration on AI and Just Transition is adopted

BRICS Labour Ministers adopted their Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting Declaration during their annual meeting in Brazil.

Research Brief

How and when will AI impact the economy: Evidence from China

This brief introduces a new framework to estimate when and how AI will impact China’s economy by analyzing the potential for automation across different job tasks. It provides policymakers and researchers with a quantitative tool to assess AI’s...

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025

Indonesia welcomes the latest ILO report on the transformation of AI and digitalization to occupational safety and health

Indonesia values the latest ILO report on AI and digitalization, recognizing it as a crucial opportunity to align the country’s inspection and preventive measures with the changing dynamics of the modern workplace.

Technology with purpose: a young man supporting his mother’s business and shaping his life project through SENATIC and the ILO

At just 17 years of age, Rafael Alfonso Meza Guerra discovered in technology a way to reconnect with his past, support his mother, and build a future filled with purpose thanks to his training under the SENATIC project an alliance between the...

AI and digitalization are transforming safety and health at work

A new ILO report unveils opportunities and risks ahead of World Day for Safety and Health at Work.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025: Global Report

Revolutionizing health and safety: The role of AI and digitalization at work

Press Release

Brasília Hosts the 4th BRICS Employment Working Group Meeting Focused on Artificial Intelligence and Just Transition

By focusing on the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Just Transition, the 4th BRICS Employment Working Group meeting in Brasília convened to ensure a fair, inclusive, and sustainable future of work in BRICS member states through South-South and...

Press release

ILO unveils key data on web-based platform work in Latin America and the Caribbean

New ILO report provides unprecedented data on workers in web-based digital platforms in Latin America and the Caribbean.

ILO Working paper 138

Responses of technical and vocational education and training institutions to the needs of industry’s digital transformation in South-East...

This paper investigates the responses of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions in South-East Asia to the demands of industry’s digital transformation in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0).

Impact story

Empowered to ensure a safer and healthier fishing sector in Namibia

Historically, Merlus Fishing company had complied with only the basic requirements of the Merchant Shipping Act. Willem realized there was more to be done beyond mere compliance after participating in a joint safety inspection for fishing vessels in...

Latin America and the Caribbean

Survey on workers on web-based digital platforms

This report summarises a survey of 1,153 digital platform workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyses their profile, working conditions and income, revealing precariousness, informality and lack of social protection. 52% use these...

The 4th Assembly of the Ibero-American Network of Public Employment Services (RISPE) was held in Madrid

It was attended by the ILO and took place from March 31 to April 2, 2025, promoted by the Spanish Public Employment Service (SEPE).

ILO discusses key areas to tackle forced labour and human trafficking in the EU

At a high-level conference hosted by the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU, the ILO discussed the shared challenges in the EU to tackle forced labour and human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation