The future of work... - Wed, Nov 7 2018

Over the next twenty years, we are likely to witness some of the most significant disruptions to the workforce and work as we know it in recent memory. This has been fueled by the demographic and socioeconomic trends of the past decade, like rapid…

Why do companies struggle to create value? In part, because employees focus on completing routine tasks rather than identifying and addressing unseen problems and opportunities. Get an in-depth look at our vision of the future of work, where…

A new podcast series from the McKinsey Global Institute explores how technologies like automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence are shaping how we work, where we work, and the skills we need to work. The future of work is one of the…

Donald Trump was the great winner of the growing geographic inequalities that affect his country. Without them he may not have won the presidential election. The more digital the US economy, the more unequal its geography of work and the more…

Alanna Cotton believes we will soon be working from anywhere. In fact, Cotton, head of mobile computing at Samsung, envisions a world in which virtual and augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and 5G will soon give us…

I contemplate the future of work on a daily basis in both my professional and personal life. As a father of four children from four to 14 years old, and as a citizen of the world, I care about our future. As CEO of freelancing website Upwork, I am…