What can we make of all the predictions on the future of work? Mainly because they are not all focused on the same variables and do not all reach the same conclusion. Let me illustrate. Microsoft ...

Bing. Another email. Bzzzz. A text message. Bloop-bloop. An incoming video call. In today’s fast-paced, always-connected world, email and text alerts arrive at all hours, deadlines creep into weekends ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how creativity and communications accelerate success. Sep 15, 2025, 06:13pm EDT Bree Groff knew that work would be ...

Would you like to work nearly double the standard 40-hour week? It’s a question that many startups in the US are asking prospective employees—and to get the job, the answer needs to be an unequivocal ...

Louise J. Slater is professor of hydroclimatology in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. By contrast, academic consulting work, one of the most direct and ...

Nine to five is still alive. Sort of. A new survey of labour-force data by Amory Gethin of the World Bank and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley finds that the world’s employed ...

Work, whether it is conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional, value-added or not, is an essential part of human existence. The ability to work productively and effectively is the ...

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A burst of experimentation followed ChatGPT's release to the public in late 2022. Now many people are integrating the newest models and custom systems into what they do all day: their work. Chefs are ...