Automation isn’t happening because robots are coming for our jobs, but because we’ve been designing our jobs for robots, Liam Grace-Flood argues. (Photo by The People Speak! / CC BY-NC 2.0 )
The phrase “future of work” implies a certain inevitability. Despite their tendency to dehumanize and exclude, automation, remote and gig work have long been forecasted and proselytized by think tanks and management consulting firms. The coronavirus pandemic has made it feel all the more inevitable, in that we are already living it. But we may not have to.
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