9 Best Articles in 2021
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey: These are the skills you will need for the future of work
McKinsey & Company
9 min read · Jun 29th · Research has shown that while the need for manual skills will decline, the demand for technological, social and higher cognitive skills will increase.
Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without work
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
WIRED
The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
WIRED
4 min read · From 2017 · What if we regarded code not as a high-stakes, sexy affair, but the equivalent of skilled work at a Chrysler plant?
Guardian Books
The end of capitalism has begun
Guardian Books
~20 min read · From 2016 · Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
sahillavingia.com
No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
sahillavingia.com
8 min read · Jan 7th · How we work at Gumroad
WIRED UK
The perfect number of hours to work every day? Five
WIRED UK
2 min read · Jun 15th · Research shows that five work hours a day can improve productivity and bolster wellbeing. There’s only one thing holding companies back
The Guardian
Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
The Guardian
20+ min read · From 2018 · Work means different things to different people: an economic necessity, a source of self-fulfillment, a status symbol or all of the above. Yet up until recently, few Westerners have questioned the value or necessity of work itself. This is now changing, as Andy Beckett explains in his article for The Guardian. He gives voice to a growing number of intellectuals and political activists who think that our work-centric society is becoming obsolete. In outlining some main lines of thinking within the emerging post-work movement, Beckett provides much food for thought for anybody interested in the future of work.
CNBC
Harvard lecturer: 'No specific skill will get you ahead in the future'—but this 'type of thinking' will
CNBC
4 min read · 2020-06-15 · To make it in today's world of rapid changes and uncertainties, successful business leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk prove it's better to be a generalist, rather than a specialist.
BuzzFeed News
Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever
BuzzFeed News
1 min read · 2020-05-12 · Two months into working from home, Twitter makes it permanent for some.
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The Atlantic
Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future
The Atlantic
7 min read · Jul 29th · Like it or not, the way we work has already evolved.
The New York Times
Opinion | 8 Hours a Day, 5 Days a Week Is Not Working for Us
The New York Times
6 min read · Jul 20th · The goal is “one reasonable job per person,” not “two for one and half for another.”
The New York Times
The Battles to Come Over the Benefits of Working From Home
The New York Times
5 min read · Jul 20th · Not having to commute was the equivalent of a big bonus for many employees. In the future, bosses may expect more hours in exchange for remote work, an economist says.
Harvard Business Review
4 Strategies for Building a Hybrid Workplace that Works
Harvard Business Review
5 min read · Jul 22nd · Focus on equity, engagement, and ease.
Entrepreneur
Why Digital Freelancing is the Future of Work
Entrepreneur
3 min read · Jul 18th · The way people work has changed.
TIME
The Pandemic Reset the Balance Between Workers and Employers. How Bosses Respond Will Shape the Future of…
TIME
3 min read · Jul 22nd · Employees in many industries are in a position of power that they haven’t experienced in years
TechCrunch
Walmart will be bringing Symbotic robots to 25 distribution centers
TechCrunch
1 min read · Jul 14th · Ask anyone who runs a fulfillment/warehouse robotics company what companies’ top motivation is for embracing automation and they’ll probably cite labor shortages or shipping speeds. The looming truth…
ZDNet
Prepare for AI that learns to code your enterprise applications
ZDNet
3 min read · Jul 22nd · The future of work for application development and delivery (AD&D) pros will have to change.
The Washington Post
Iceland tested a 4-day workweek. Employees were productive — and happier, researchers say.
The Washington Post
5 min read · Jul 7th · Some of the trials’ key findings showed that a shorter week translated into increased well-being of employees among a range of indicators, from stress and burnout to health and work-life balance.
TechCrunch
Bring your own environment: The future of work
TechCrunch
7 min read · Jul 31st · A few years from now, the organizations that succeed will be the ones that resisted the urge to race everyone back to the office and instead rethought how their workforce operates.
