The article summarizes the discussion on the issues of labor, employment, human capital and its management that was had at a meeting of the scientific section of the Department of Economic Sociology of St Petersburg State University as part of the IX St Petersburg International Labor Forum, which was held on April 2-4 2025 in St Petersburg. The article summarizes three reports given at the section meeting that were devoted to the issues of pointless labor in the organization and management of it, the problem of forced overtime employment in Russian organizations and models of its construction by employers, the problem of labor organization in the workplace. The article also summarizes the scientific discussion as part of discussing the reports as well as other issues of the development of the labor sphere.