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Three ways to think about AI, massive job cuts, and the future of work.
Work needs to deliver security, fairness and social value as well as efficiency.
Amazon, Block and Atlassian have announced AI-driven job cuts, and Meta is reportedly planning its own – but all may not be as it seems.
Even if you’ve never used these software tools, your employer probably has. Now, AI threatens to upend the systems businesses have relied on for years.
As AI becomes part of everyday life, students showed how we can partner with the technology, rather than worry about it taking over jobs.
If you have decades of work experience, your skills may be exactly what’s needed to harness AI’s power, without falling into its traps.
More autonomous AI systems that can use tools and work in teams are becoming increasingly common.
The future of work isn’t about humans being replaced by robots, but about learning how to use the technology to enhance skills and creating new entry points into the professional world.
Universities have relied on expert knowledge being scarce, but AI is changing that. Tuition now needs to focus on human skills that machines still struggle to copy.
As AI becomes more capable and embedded in daily routines, anxieties surrounding it are likely to intensify.
Creating psychological boundaries between work and home life is healthy – up to a point.
As AI and automation transform the workplace, a universal basic income is one possible solution. But research is beginning to show the unpredictable outcomes of such unconditional cash transfers.
Work cannot be meaningful if it not only fails to help others but actually harms them.
An expert explains what she learned from analysing 10 books on the future of work.
New digital technologies have been a constant for workers over the past few decades, with a mixed record on the economy and individuals’ daily lives. AI’s effect will likely be just as unpredictable.
Canada needs to improve the way we work. Improving our productivity ranking will take years, but by taking steps in education, in the private sector and in government, we can achieve national wealth.
Software you may already use every day can track your productivity for your employer.
The 1960s cartoon The Jetsons got three things about the future very wrong: the place of women in the workforce, how much we will work, and where we work.
With Amazon facing worker battles in the UK, US and Germany, no wonder people worry about how technology is changing workplaces.
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Director of Sydney Executive Plus, Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Management, York University, Canada
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Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, University of Sydney
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Southampton
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DANCAP Private Equity Chair in Human Organization, Western University
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Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Workplace Futures Research Lead, Centre for the New Workforce, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of the Future of Work, Newcastle University
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Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Work, Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre (WOERRC), University of Sheffield
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Architect and academic, London Metropolitan University