Future of Work

The New York Times

On the Future of Work, a Reporter Looks Back

Emma Goldberg, a journalist on the Business desk of The New York Times, reflects on her evolving beat as tens of thousands of …

Harvard Business Review

3 Ways to Prepare for the Future of Work

The last few years have been marked by generation-defining crises — political, economic, societal, and environmental. Much …

Computerworld

The future of work is AI-enhanced and remote

Two of the biggest unresolved questions in business this year are whether remote work is here to stay and how AI will affect …

Fortune

Workers might have to ditch the 9-5 for the 6-2 because of climate change, Oxford study says

The experts warned that as heat builds up and becomes more unbearable as the day goes on, a 2pm finish should be better than …

JSTOR

The New "Hybrid Work" is "AI + Humans"

The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that …

The Guardian

Human values, as well as AI, must be at the core of the future of work

Automation too often erodes conditions and job quality creating anxiety and overwork. To build ‘good work’, we …

Vice

The Death of the 9–5 Day Job

Remote working, flexible hours and the four day week are revolutionising the way we work. Are the old ways gone forever?

The Wall Street Journal

What CEOs Are Getting Wrong About the Future of Work—and How to Make It Right

To build better companies, leaders need to experiment more, quit ’living in fear of opening Pandora’s box,’ …

World Economic Forum

How skills-based organizations can use AI to create the jobs of tomorrow

Traditionally, employees were matched to roles based on their qualifications and organizational reporting structures, as …

The Wall Street Journal

Robots? Some Companies Find Only Humans Can Do the Job

In retail, fast food and delivery, robots with names like Roxo, Rita and Scout have delivered mixed, sometimes quirky …

Hacker News

What jobs will be big in the future that don't exist yet?

I’m putting together a list of future jobs that she can think about (space mining engineer, neural lace technologist, …

a16z

The Company of the Future is Default Global

As the successful businesses of tomorrow launch in multiple countries at a time, opportunities abound for ambitious startups …

Yelp - Official Blog

The future of work is remote

The pandemic has brought about unprecedented change over the past two plus years. While we expected some things would go back …

The Independent

UK four-day week pilot begins with 70 companies and thousands of workers

The biggest ever four-day working week pilot is set to begin in the UK, with over 70 companies and 3,300 workers ready to …

Vox

What if the future of work is exactly the same?

For many, the gains in worker pay and power during the pandemic are fading fast — if they even saw them at all.

The New York Times

Big Tech Makes a Big Bet: Offices Are Still the Future

Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and …

The New York Times

The Age of Anti-Ambition

When 25 million people leave their jobs, it’s about more than just burnout.

WIRED

I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR. Here's What I Learned

Hello from low-earth orbit! I have spent hundreds of hours working here in virtual reality. Even as I write this to you, I …

Harvard Business Review

11 Trends that Will Shape Work in 2022 and Beyond

Here are 11 underlying trends that will shape workplace volatility in 2022.

Entrepreneur

The Future of Work Isn't Remote

After two years of being just faces on a screen, most of the employees at my company have returned to the office at least two …

WorkLife

'Old maps don't apply to new worlds': Experts predict what's in store for 2022

Given the U.S. military phrase VUCA — an acronym for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity — encapsulates the …

The Washington Post

Future of Work: Requiring workers to return to the office is a 'doomed approach'

Slack’s CEO Stewart Butterfield says the future of work is being dictated by workers who want more flexibility and …

The Atlantic

The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career

Humans may soon live to be 100, which likely means more years on the job. That could be a good thing, if we take the …

Future

As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm

Lost in all this talk of digital nomads and side gigs, however, are the masses of independent professionals who are working …

Paul Tomlinson

Working From Orbit

I’ve been a full-time VR worker since April 2019, spending in the neighborhood of 4,500 hours banging away at real work …

80,000 Hours

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work

In this interview Cal and Rob cover that, as well as:

• Is the hyperactive hive-mind really one of the world’s most …

Vox

Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they're making them worse.

The robot apocalypse is already here, it just looks different than you thought.

Forge

How to Chip Away at the 40-Hour Workweek

If we as a society are going to recognize that time is valuable and that we are humans first, employees second, we need to …

The New York Times

Google's Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls

The company that helped popularize open office plans and lavish employee perks is trying to reinvent office spaces to cope …