#New Work

From suppliers to enablers
Future Life
From suppliers to enablers
Employers of the future: Why AI, Gen Z, and new life realities require a reinvention of the employer’s role.
New tech lighthouse
Engineering
New tech lighthouse
The new Technology Center provides Schaeffler with a state-of-the-art knowledge lab for material-based products. What kind of tech highlights does the facility contain, what kind of research is performed there, and what do customers value?
A hotbed of innovation
Engineering
A hotbed of innovation
Schaeffler has opened a cutting-edge technology center at its headquarters in Herzogenaurach. Around 90 million euros were invested in the construction of the technology center.
Digital Workplace – where we work in the future
Digital
Digital Workplace – where we work in the future
Modern workplaces enable flexible, efficient and attractive collaboration.
The AI revolution
Digital
The AI revolution
The force with which artificial intelligence is penetrating nearly all areas of life is awesome. Self-learning systems are fundamentally rearranging everyday work as well. What adjustments do employees need to make to master that transformation?
“A world of work with mixed robo-human teams would be a major step forward.”
Digital
“A world of work with mixed robo-human teams would be a major step forward.”
Leibniz Prize winner Professor Wolfram Burgard is one of the leading researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. In an interview, he looks at robots and AI as potential teammates in tomorrow’s workplace.
Team players wanted
Digital
Team players wanted
Solo fighters in dark pixel worlds or true team players looking for adventures together with others? For a long time, science paid hardly any attention to gamers. Now new findings about them are available which are of interest to employers as well.
Smarter living
Future Life
Smarter living
Time is in scarce supply – all the more reason to use it efficiently. These tricks help you make more time for yourself on the job and after hours.
Digital beats 20/20 vision
Digital
Digital beats 20/20 vision
I can see what you see too: Mixed Reality applications accelerate processes and facilitate remote communications.
Learning for a complex world
Future Life
Learning for a complex world
An innovation-driven world changes all of our lives. Here are five areas education and training should focus on to prepare people for the new digital knowledge society.
Dr. Digital
Digital
Dr. Digital
Digital transformation in the healthcare sector is in full swing and receiving a boost due to the corona pandemic. Here are a few examples.
A win-win situation
Engineering
A win-win situation
When business and science successfully work together, hands-on knowledge from the industrial world is combined with academic findings. But how do such university-business partnerships succeed?
Rethinking the world of work
Future Life
Rethinking the world of work
Developing increasingly sophisticated products at a continually accelerating pace – this can only be achieved with agile organizational structures. “New Work” is the new fitness formula for companies.
Neo jobs in the world of tomorrow
Future Life
Neo jobs in the world of tomorrow
Artificial intelligence, quantum physics and robotics will dramatically change our world this century. Some jobs will disappear while others will emerge. This is what such neo jobs might look like.
Let’s talk about future
Future Life
Let’s talk about future
Digital technology is changing the future of our working world. For industrial sociologist Martin Krzywdzinski, algorithms and machines neither pose a threat to humanity nor they are ultimate saviors.
Inner drive
In Motion
Inner drive
The working world has seen constant change in hundreds of thousands of years. By contrast, this cannot be said for a major reason why we work.
In dialog with smart machines
Digital
In dialog with smart machines
Artificial intelligence suddenly seems to be all around us – it will radically change our jobs and everyday lives. Even so, machines are far from truly understanding the world.
Out of office
Future Life
Out of office
It doesn't always have to be a desk. These ten people have a slightly different workplace.
Steely farmhands
Engineering
Steely farmhands
Machine hall vs. mini vehicle fleet – a visit to two highly diverse agricultural operations in Brazil.
The subtle difference
Engineering
The subtle difference
Are men interested in machines and women are not? Before this question provokes a public outcry, it’s worth taking a look at a few statistics and the changes that are currently taking place.