The media and popular literature abound with visions of work in the
future. Some are dystopian, foreseeing a workplace where software and
machines perform most tasks and humans are thin on the ground. Others
are benign, anticipating that current modes of work will survive well
into the future, and that new technologies will make work and the
workplace a more enjoyable experience than today.
However, even those of
the latter, more optimistic bent acknowledge that the path to the work
future will be strewn with difficult realities that employers and
employees will need to face up to.
Does the inexorable expansion of the digital economy portend a shift
of the balance of power in the workplace? Will the rise of an on-demand
workforce further upset this balance? And how will the relentless march
of today’s emergent technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI)
and others impact the work environment?
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