Here are some hits and links to some stories that have recently caught our attention. This Bloomberg podcast goes deep into Japan’s current economic state, including the use of robots and automation to replace falling workforce numbers, (Note: podcast.) Speaking of automation and work, this piece discusses how jobs that require “emotional labor” will be…
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Well, it looks as though we are back on a semi-regular schedule. Here are things that caught our eye as we went about our business. What’s the world’s second most used resource? Did you guess sand? Neither did I. Anyway, like water, it is getting scarcer. Related to sand, rising agricultural commodity prices are…
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Last week, I had the opportunity—and pleasure—to speak to incoming freshmen at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. The topic was the future of work, with a look at how changes happening today will be reshaping work for not only these students, but all workers. I was joined by representatives from Deloitte, KPMG, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.…
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A few months back, Facebook came under public scrutiny about how it curated its trending topic feeds, facing allegations that the editors of trending topics were skewing the results against “conservative” news stories. In response, Facebook said it would review how trending topics were curated, and as a result it switched to an all-algorithm-generated trending…
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The threat of automation to jobs is one that generates a lot of media coverage these days, and there is a lot of anxiety over employment, job quality, and how automation (both software and hardware) could impact livelihoods. A November 2015 report from McKinsey found that of 750 jobs surveyed, 45% of the activities people…
DetailsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Futures of Work: New Report Illuminates Global Opportunities and Disruptions WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2016—Workers everywhere will be affected by accelerating disruptions to the world of work—yet people in different economic positions will be impacted in very different ways, according to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight…
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The not-yet launched social rating app Peeple recently caught the attention of the Internet, and the reaction was not kind. By the admission of its founders, Peeple seeks to be “the Yelp for people,” a succinct tagline that detractors immediately seized upon. According to its creators, Peeple seeks to consolidate reviews of ordinary people. Have…
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