Agora VIII: Jobrotation: Thessaloniki, 20-21 March 2000

The Agora Thessaloniki is a forum for vocational education and training issues. Jobrotation is a scheme for investing in human capital by allowing rotation between employment and training. It enables: employees to leave their jobs temporarily in order to be trained without this causing any major break in production; replacement from outside the firm for the employee who is receiving training so that the number of employees in the firm remains unchanged and replacement workers are operational immediately; and the firm to benefit from the increased efficiency of the employees who have returned from training whilst at the same time allowing their replacements to have acquired new skills. Agora VIII, on Jobrotation, aimed to: review the implementation of Jobrotation in Europe; analyse Jobrotation as good practice; and consider the future of Jobrotation. This publication contains the agenda of the meeting, papers from the meeting and a list of participants. The papers are: ‘Jobrotation’ in France: a pioneering measure / Patrick Guillox; Jobrotation development and dissemination in Europe / Kens Kruhoffer; German experience of Jobrotation: a case study / Monika Kammeier; Danish experience of Jobrotation: a case study / Ghita Vejlebo; Jobrotation efficiency: small and large companies compared / Lizzi Feiler; Contribution of Mar Athanasios Papathanasiou, Director of the Technopolis Vocational Training Centre; Jobrotation from the perspective of enterprises, employees and political decision-makers: expectations and results illustrated by the example of ‘Jobrotation for the Bremen region’ / Hubertus Schick; A few Danish comments on the concept of Jobrotation / Jorgen Mork; Jobrotation as a means of promoting innovation and employment: a model for small and medium-sized enterprises in North Rhine-Westphalia (D) / Reiner Siebert; Synthesis of the work / Andre Kirchberger. Show less