Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Zink, scientific director of the Institute for Technology and Work e.V. at the TU Kaiserslautern, was appointed to the "Future of Work" task force of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). The task force wants to work out an international state of the art for the change of the world of work and derive from it research needs for national or regional industrial science societies as well as the Technical Committees of the IEA.