In 2024, a Gallup survey revealed that twenty-two percent of workers feared their jobs would become obsolete due to technology, up from 15% in 2021. If the study were repeated today, I'd bet that percentage would be closer to twenty-five. Since ChatGPT first shook the world in November 2022, the pace of change has accelerated … Continue reading FOBO: The fear of becoming obsolete
We are bang in the middle of prediction season. That can only mean one thing! Today, I’m sharing not only my top five predictions for the year ahead but also my three ‘not a trend’s. 2024 promises to be yet another turbulent year. Will the ‘2024 word of the workplace’ be stability? I doubt it. … Continue reading 2024: The trends & non-trends
There are years of growth, years of experimentation and then there are years of efficiency. No prizes for guessing which bucket 2023 falls into. If you are confused, all you have to do is listen to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, who has quoted the term ‘year of efficiency’ multiple times over the last six … Continue reading The ‘Year of Digestion’
Two things happened when ChatGPT rose to its current popularity: users wanted to use it for almost everything and organizations rushed to create data security policies that would stop employees from doing just that. Employers were petrified that sensitive data would find its way into the public sphere and banned the use of OpenAI on … Continue reading Microsoft’s Copilot is the Future of Work
I have no less than six posts dedicated to meetings on this blog and at least two episodes on the pod where meetings form one of the top three stories of the month. I am not obsessed with meetings but I spend a LOT of time thinking about them and even more time attending them. … Continue reading Shopify’s Meeting Cost Calculator
We live in a world obsessed with data. In many ways, with our every move being tracked, analyzed, and used by innumerable organizations, data is the new currency. This holds true for our workplaces too and while we've begun harvesting more data than ever, even more stays unexplored. One such highly potential source of insights … Continue reading Big Idea 2023: Harvesting meeting data
Long before LinkedIn opened its feed allowing everyone to post, a set of LinkedIn influencers would publish their Big Idea for the year. In 2014, they also came together to publish a series on ‘If I were 22’. Back in those days, I would spend hours crawling through these pieces waiting for the next. As … Continue reading Predictions 2023: Abstractions
As we sift through the zillion new ideas that emerge every day, one term that we’ll likely cross paths with many times over is Web3. Almost every second article on the internet related to technology is debating if the term is a fad or the future. Technology, and specifically the internet, is an integral part … Continue reading What is Web3?
There are four months left in the year and, as incredulous as it feels, it is time to think of what work would look like in 2022. As organizations continue planning to ‘return to work’ for what’s likely the 13th month running, the evidence on burnout is overwhelming. A study by the University of Chicago … Continue reading The case for eliminating (most) meetings & how
It’s been a while, but here are my top picks for the month. All it takes is 15 minutes (usually less) to open a whole new line of thinking or reinforce existing ones. TED is literally one of the world’s best creation. I could fan girl over TED talks for the next many paragraphs, but … Continue reading Top 5 TED Talks – March 2021
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