BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e952204a-c563-4dc7-95a3-52a08fb75745.198526@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20190603T211413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T211413Z LOCATION:Plaster Student Union\, Robert W. Room 313 SUMMARY:Public Affairs Conference - The workplace of the future DESCRIPTION:Panel Session - The workplace of the future\n\n\nTechnological change has occurred throughout history. These changes have increased wor ker productivity and stimulated economic growth\, but often at the cost o f displacing workers. Recently\, the rate of technological change has inc reased dramatically\, offering the possibility of a shorter work week and earlier retirement in our future. As robots increasingly become our part ners in the workplace\, enhancing our jobs by performing mundane\, repeti tive tasks for us\, what collateral changes will occur? Does this pose a threat to the concept of work entirely? What will the workplace of the fu ture look like after the digital industrial revolution? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><a href="https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference/schedule/612/th e-workplace-of-the-future">Panel Session -&nbsp\;The workplace of the fut ure</a></p>\n<p>Technological change has occurred throughout history. The se changes have increased worker productivity and stimulated economic gro wth\, but often at the cost of displacing workers. Recently\, the rate of technological change has increased dramatically\, offering the possibili ty of a shorter work week and earlier retirement in our future. As robots increasingly become our partners in the workplace\, enhancing our jobs b y performing mundane\, repetitive tasks for us\, what collateral changes will occur? Does this pose a threat to the concept of work entirely? What will the workplace of the future look like after the digital industrial revolution?</p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191003T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191003T144500 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR