What could a post-COVID workplace look like?
By Christina Candido, Samin Marzban & Iva Durakovic The collective experiences of workers pre and post-pandemic offer five lessons for organisations to reimagine workplaces and practices. When pandemic restrictions banished workers from offices into their homes,...
The future of work and COVID – be wary of the Emperor’s new clothes?
By Sara Walton, Paula O’Kane & Diane Ruwhiu How will New Zealanders ‘work’ in 2040 and beyond? How do we make sense in the present day of the societal, economic and environmental pressures that will impact work in the future? As we approach the third decade...
Is COVID causing a rise in digital nomads?
By Shaun Busuttil Nomads have historically been seen as a threat, but several countries around the world are now actively seeking to attract this growing digital legion through new remote work visas. The coronavirus pandemic has nudged the world into a transitory...
Can we grow organisations and work that support a sustainable world?
By Gilbert Wong Can we grow organisations and work that support a sustainable world? The answer comes from understanding our deepest psychological drivers, according to Niki Harre. Let’s play the word association game. Money, status, competition, power and...
Does AI represent the end of work as we know it?
By Gilbert Wong A general purpose AI is inevitable and New Zealand could lead the way as the nature of work is transformed. When is too much knowledge a bad thing? According to the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers there are...
How are young tertiary students that work faring in the wake of COVID-19?
By Patrick Vakaoti “Working students should not be in a position to choose finding work over their education.” COVID-19 marks a significant generational moment for young people. The world as they knew it was transformed as countries went into lockdown,...
How do we define what is skilled and unskilled labour? 🔊
New Zealand is currently in the middle of a lockdown as the country attempts to eliminate COVID-19. With this, only essential services are operating. Much of those essential services are everyday things like public transport or food stores. The workers in these areas...
How has COVID-19 affected the labour movement in the United States? 🔊
The United States has fast become the most affected country by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aside from the hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 cases, the pandemic has also led to mass unemployment and widespread strike action by workers. Rachel Simpson spoke with Paul Taillon...
The future of work in Aotearoa New Zealand: What future for the young? ▶
As new technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence continue to grow in influence the very nature of what work means and how it is organised in the future will be radically reconfigured. Not only are new technologies reshaping the types of jobs available...Subscribe by Email
Completely spam free, opt out any time.
This form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
