In a session on three different angels to work Roland will talk about the ever-decreasing need for human labour and how it affect humans and the society we live in.
Roland has a PhD in sociology and is the author of three books including Empty Labor: Workplace Resistance and Idleness which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. His research questions deals with the metamorphosis of work in a post-scarcity world, and especially the increasing meaninglessness of work. The Wall Street Journal recently described him as "one of the world’s foremost experts on how people shirk on the job".