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The Potential for Scaling Technology: Increased Labor Productivity...If We Get It Right

Description Asutosh Padhi is McKinsey & Company's Global Leader of Firm Strategy, responsible for shaping the ...

BY Asutosh Padhi

03.26.2025
Employment and Jobs

The Future of Workers and AI: Control Over Workplace Activity Data is Key

How will artificial intelligence (AI) impact the workplace? To answer that, we must have a much clearer sense of what AI is. In the most basic sense, AI is ...

BY Mary Gray

03.13.2025
Employment and Jobs

Canaries in the Coal Mine: Domestic Workers and the Future of Work

In this conversation, we explore what the past can teach us about the future — and how we can ensure that workers have a say in what comes next.

BY Ai-jen Poo Natalie Foster

02.12.2025
Employment and Jobs

Beyond Automation Anxiety: Shifting the Narrative from Technological Fears to Worker Power

How do we think about cities, states, and municipalities as sites of experimentation and contestation for new models of workers co-designing technology initiatives with employers?

BY Michelle Miller

01.15.2025
Employment and Jobs

The Gig Economy's Next Act: Balancing Flexibility and Security for Workers

The gig economy is here to stay, and I love listening to people’s stories of why they choose to do it. A driver for one of my recent rides on Lyft told me, “With Lyft, I’ll never be broke, and I can put money away for my kid’s music lessons.”

BY David Risher

11.21.2024
Employment and Jobs

Empowering the Workforce: Roy Bahat on the Future of Work

In this conversation with Workonomics’ Nilesh Kavthekar, Roy Bahat — head of Bloomberg Beta, chair of the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, ...

BY Roy Bahat Nilesh Kavthekar

10.02.2024
Employment and Jobs

Artificial Intelligence, Human Intellectual Autonomy and the Future of Work

In January 2015, Congress convened the inaugural meeting of its newly-formed Sharing Economy Caucus. Led by Representatives Jerome Nadler and Eric Swalwell ...

BY Arun Sundararajan

08.29.2024
Employment and Jobs

Looking Back on the "Future of Work" (And What's Next)

We’ve excited the future of work conversation of the last decade, and entered the age of AI.

BY Natalie Foster Anmol Chaddha

07.23.2024
Employment and Jobs

AI and the Future of Work(ers)

Algorithms are influencing decisions about hiring, firing, and worker management, yet there is rarely transparency and accountability around these decisions.

BY Don J. Howard

07.23.2024
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