Future of Work
How software agents and automation reshape the workday.
Future of Work
Two years of randomised trials now show exactly where AI tools save time and where they do not. The gains are real, concentrated in a specific kind of task, and smaller than the promises, unless the work around the tool changes too.
Martin Anderson · 12 October 2026 · 10 min
Future of Work
The Amazon founder argues AI productivity gains will make short workweeks and single income households common, and hiring difficult. The economics behind the claim is real. So are the untested assumptions inside it.
Andrew Singer · 10 October 2026 · 9 min
Future of Work
The trial results promised equal output in fewer hours. Long-term implementation reveals a more complicated trade-off between intensity, scheduling, and staff retention.
Michelle Greenlee · 17 September 2026 · 6 min
Future of Work
Employers across the United States and northern Europe have tightened requirements. Measured attendance shows compliance clustering into the same three days it always did.
Michelle Greenlee · 9 September 2026 · 6 min
Future of Work
Heat pumps, grid connections, datacentre plant and hospital equipment all wait on the same constrained labour pool, and no amount of AI closes that gap.
Shel Evergreen · 8 September 2026 · 7 min
Future of Work
Modern software tracks clicks, commits, and calendar blocks. None of these indicators tell managers whether any meaningful thinking actually happened.
Michelle Greenlee · 7 September 2026 · 7 min
Future of Work
Tech companies stopped training entry-level developers two years ago. The structural deficit will become obvious by 2029, when senior ranks run dry.
Andrew Singer · 6 September 2026 · 6 min
Future of Work
The first white-collar function to be materially reshaped by AI agents is not the analyst or the associate. It is the manager sitting one layer above them.
Clara Bergman · 26 June 2026 · 7 min
Future of Work
Iceland's headline trials are over. What is happening now in Danish, Swedish and Finnish workplaces is smaller, harder to measure, and more likely to persist.
Sanna Koskinen · 11 June 2026 · 6 min