Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2022 Nominee

Future Work


Dynamic, Freelance, and Telework

Description

HRSD set a plan to utilize all the capabilities of the community by defining new types of jobs, considering the fact that jobs have been found in the last 7 decades are changing now. The main characteristics of the new jobs should be resilient to human needs and utilize unused capabilities of society like handicapped and women.
The first type is: Dynamic work (https://mrn.sa) simplify the contracting between workers and worker-owners, where the worker can work on flexible hours, and worker-owners pays only for the actual working hours. With Dynamic work, the economy can utilize the skilled workers who have special conditions (e.g. handicapped). The second type: Freelance (https://freelance.sa) provides an official license to the workers to work on special skilled jobs depending on the workers’ free scheduled time, one of the targets is to increase the workers’ income (as a second job). The Third type: “Telework program” (https://teleworks.sa/en/) allows the worker-owners to build remote teams, control and evaluate the team performance without the need of being co-located.
Statistics say:
1.Dynamic work has 1,215,000+ visits. 160,000+ registered users. 3200+ companies registered. 6,395 contracts are created/canceled e-contracts.
2. Freelance issued 858,544 freelance certificates, and Supporting 11,100+ Productive families. Supporting 425 Crafts. Serving 65,000+ of empowering beneficiaries of rural development. 130,000+ specialized services provided over the portal.
3. Telework program portal has 51,890 contracts issued. 450,000+ Resumes uploaded, integrating with 23 job agencies. 2000+ job announcements

Each portal is complementary to other portals. The positive impacts of portals are many. First, achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (“No poverty”, “Decent work and economic growth”, etc.). Second, produce more job opportunities. Third, utilize the unused skills and capabilities of the society in developing the country. Fourth, being ready for pandemics like the Coronavirus pandemic.

Project website

https://futurework.com.sa/


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
  • AL C6. Enabling environment
  • AL C7. E-government
  • AL C7. E-business
  • AL C7. E-employment 2022
  • AL C7. E-environment
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
  • Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
  • Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Coverage
  • Saudi Arabia

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2019

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • The poor
  • Migrants
  • Refugees and internally displaced people
  • Remote and rural communities
  • All the beneficiary groups • For the “indigenous and nomadic peoples”, and “remote and rural communities”, covered by using any future work portal • For Migrants and “Refugees and internally displaced people” , covered by using any future work portal

Replicability

The future-work services are promising and the initial outputs clearly shows the success of the services. The future-work services can be replicate fully (i.e. the three types of future-work) or partially (i.e. the one/two types of future-work) to other regional and international countries, which have similar characteristics of the Saudi society. The future-work service providing three sets of services that fully depend the on the Saudi labor market needs and the ability of the Saudi society.


Sustainability

The Future-Work program is self-funded; the services are free for employees/workers. The companies subscribed in Dynamic work and teleworks services are paying fees subscription plus the regular fees of the HRSD, which both considered the main source for funding the Dynamic work, and teleworks. For the freelance, the fund is provided as a loan (without interest) from the Social Development Bank to the freelancer


WSIS values promotion

At Future Work we aim to realize a thriving economy based on innovative solutions that meets the ambitions and expectations of the youth. This will be achieved through a free labor market filled with creativity and measures to every change in the global and international labor markets. Here we create a hand to the traditional labor market


Entity name

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD)

Entity country—type

Saudi Arabia Government

Entity website

https://hrsd.gov.sa/en/