06/24/2026: Our Potential Future Work Life: A Presentation of the Work Futures Initiative Results

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

9 - 10 AM HST | 12 - 1 PM PT | 2 - 3 PM CT | 3 - 4 PM ET

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About the webinar:

This session presents "hot off the press" information about a potential future of work, worker experience, and workplaces formulated by 50+ subject matter experts including researchers and practitioners representing 18 disciplines during a three-day in-person workshop at UC Berkeley. This highly engaging, breakthrough event generated a new vision of the future through a series of deep, complex, and challenging interdisciplinary discussions with the aim of extracting the key problems to solve for today's national workforce and identifying opportunities for change and creation of new structural and organizational approaches that promote both business success and worker health, safety, well-being, and productivity simultaneously. This work describes the outcomes of the second of three phases of the Work Futures Initiative led by the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at the University of California, Berkeley.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this activity, learners will be able to: 

  • Identify emerging trends influencing a new vision and framework for the future of work, worker experience, and workplaces.

  • Discuss basic fundamentals underlying this new vision and framework that enables worker health and well-being and business success to occur simultaneously.

  • Describe implications for business operations, business leadership, and work processes.

Speaker: Cristina Banks, PhD

Dr. Banks is Director of the Outreach Core for the California Labor Laboratory, a NIOSH Total Worker Health Center of Excellence at UCSF. She is also Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at UC Berkeley. In these roles, Dr. Banks leads the translation and dissemination of research into practice for the CA Labor Lab and facilitates collaboration with 20+ researchers and affiliates across multiple disciplines, integrating known sciences and practices underlying healthy workplaces.

ACCREDITATION

The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 Contact Hour. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Certificates of Completion

Certificates of Completion will be available to webinar participants who are present for the complete, live webinar, and logged in with their registered email address. Call-in attendees are not eligible for certificates at this time - Please download the Zoom app to log in via email on your smartphone whenever possible.

In order to receive your Certificate of Completion, qualified learners must complete the post-webinar evaluation within 7 days of the webinar. A link to the evaluation will be emailed to qualified learners 24 hours after the webinar via no-reply@zoom.us. Qualified learners who submit their evaluation will receive a Certificate of Completion via email, and can also print/save the certificate from their browser after submitting their evaluation.

If you're not able to attend the live presentation, no problem! We record most presentations and will host them on our website provided we have permission to do so. Presentation recordings are not eligible for Certificates of Completion.

ACCESSIBILITY:

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Will Bellamy at (510) 642-8365 or wbellamy@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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About the California Labor Lab

The California Labor Lab is a collaboration among investigators at UCSF, UC Berkeley, and the California Department of Public Health. The Lab is housed at the Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Our mission is to extend the pursuit of health and safety for workers in traditional employment to those in a wide range of alternative arrangements in partnership with affected communities.