Future of Work

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With customers in financial services, insurance, and healthcare, Romanian startup UiPath has just secured funding to help it add more AI to its software robots. By Andrada Fiscutean for Central European Processing, May 3, 2017 Software robots can perform human tasks, such as reading screens, saving email attachments, and importing info into a company’s database.

by Jacqui Canney, May 2, 2017 In this series, we asked speakers at the Milken Institute Global Conference to answer: How does one build a meaningful life in the age of technological disruption? Join the conversation by writing your own article here and including #MIGlobal. In my role, I’m often asked what the “future of…

by Klaus Schwab, 14 Jan 2016 We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We do not yet know just how it will unfold,…

May 1, 2017 5 Ways the Future of Work Is Changing Last summer, Adobe researchers surveyed over 2,000 office employees and nine thought leaders on the evolving definition of work. Through this exercise, researches uncovered several interesting insights about the future of work, including the most effective “carrots” used to motivate employees.

If you have listed a San Francisco place on the home rental site, you’re now required to register with the city or be booted from the platform. by Dara Kerr, May 1, 2017 After nearly a year of legal tussles, Airbnb and the city of San Francisco have made nice. The home rental company settled…

Students need more than tech prowess to thrive by Belinda Parmar, Apr 24, 2017 From Blade Runner to I, Robot, the big screens of Hollywood have predicted the rise of the machine. Automated intelligences will wait our tables and drive our cabs. They will serve us by performing menial tasks. But fact is now surpassing…

Bloomberg News, Apr 24, 2017 Alibaba founder says education can ease blow from automation ‘Machines should only do what humans cannot,’ Ma tells forum Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma said society should prepare for decades of pain as the internet disrupts the economy.

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‘The sooner we realize that long-term forecasting is becoming obsolete, the better we’ll be able to cope’ by Andrew Chakhoyan, Apr 19, 2017 Anyone who’s ever looked into retirement planning must have pondered the two basic questions: at what age does one want to retire and how does one estimate her life expectancy? A few…

by Itai Palti, Apr 19, 2017 Growth in the first industrial revolution was driven by engineering, the second through electricity and production lines, and the third by technology and information. The modern economies that will undergo a fourth industrial revolution will not be those that worship machines, but those that support human creativity. When we…

There are legitimate concerns around AI and how it will impact the job market. But the real impact will depend on how businesses leverage and implement AI tools to support employees, rather than replace them. By Sarah K. White, CIO, Apr 17, 2017

by James Watkins, THE DAILY DOSE, APR 14 2017 We’re selling out. Uber and Lyft let us sell our rides and our tolerance for traffic. We can sell the spare bedroom on Airbnb. On TaskRabbit we can sell our ability to assemble Ikea furniture; on Etsy our knitting skills; on Lugg our brawn. The list…

ZDNet sits down with open source columnist Bob Reselman to discuss a question from our not-too-distant future: what happens to jobs when everything is automated? By David Gewirtz for ZDNet Government | April 13, 2017 One of the reasons I like to interview experts and students of technological change is to look at the differing…

by Rutger Bregman, Apr 12, 2017 A great deal has been written in recent years about the perils of automation. With predicted mass unemployment, declining wages, and increasing inequality, clearly we should all be afraid.

by James Brooks, Associated Press, Apr 12, 2017 The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee’s hand. Another “cyborg” is created.

How one field service management provider is benefiting from the technology. By Bob Violino, Apr 10, 2017 Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a huge impact on businesses in a variety of industries, including high tech. ServiceMax, a company that provides cloud-based field service software to help organizations manage contracts, scheduling, and parts, is a case…

By Silvia Marchetti, Apr 7, 2017 You’re just standing around anyway — why not get paid for it? In this original week-long series, The Evolution of the Side Hustle: How Gigs are Killing the Nine-to-Five, OZY charts the past, present and future of the side hustle. Do you have a side hustle that OZY should…

BY MARY SHACKLETT, Apr 7, 2017 Job categories across several industries are likely candidates for replacing workers with automated technologies. Here’s a look at who may be affected and how this trend could play out.

Restaurant owners are jumping on the co-working bandwagon by transforming their spaces into WeWork-style offices during the day. by Shelly Hagan, Apr 3, 2017 At 7 a.m. on a recent morning, Simon Collins was at his office in New York making a video call to China. The fashion consultant was about to launch into his…

by William H. Davidow, Apr 3, 2017 Many Americans have been experiencing massive economic insecurity and want to return to a time when they were able to earn a good living and create a decent life for themselves and their families. President Trump promised to deliver on that wish, to “Make America Great Again,” by…

The hardest activities to automate are those that involve complex interactions with people, such as managing and developing employees, or communicating with customers. By Cynthia Than, http://www.inc.com/cynthia-than/humans-are-still-better-than-robots-at-these-jobs.html

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by Sarah Kessler, Mar 27, 2017 Automation often replaces human labor, but very rarely in the last sixty years has it eliminated an entire occupation.

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse, Mar 27, 2017 WASHINGTON – Are robots coming for your job? Although technology has long affected the labor force, recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are heightening concerns about automation replacing a growing number of occupations, including highly skilled or “knowledge-based” jobs.

A new study shows that robotics investments pay off and the US is in the lead. By Kelly McSweeney, Mar 20, 2017 In many automotive plants, robots have taken over the heavy lifting and repetitive tasks. Investment in robotics has a greater positive impact on the economy than information technology, construction or real estate, according…

By Bob Violino, Mar 15, 2017 The global unified communication (UC) as a service market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 25% between 2017 and 2021, according to market research firm Technavio.

Our changing economy has given rise to a nation of freelancers and contractors—and the need for a twenty-first-century social contract. By Nick Hanauer and David Rolf The American middle class is facing an existential crisis. For more than three decades, declining wages, fraying benefits, and the rising costs of education, housing, and other essentials have…

by John McDermott, Mar 9, 2017 It’s harder to get credit when your boss never sees you. The eternal debate over whether to work from home or go into the office took an interesting turn last week in light of new research out of the University of Iowa.

by Mauricio Armellini, Mar 6, 2017 This post highlights some of the possible economic implications of the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” — whereby the use of new technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) threatens to transform entire industries and sectors. Some economists have argued that, like past technical change, this will not create large-scale unemployment, as…