Future of Work Archives - Tom Cheesewright

Robots don’t take jobs

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Tom Cheesewright on 1st July 2020.

We will never understand the impact of automation until we differentiate jobs from work. Robots can do work but not jobs.

The price of performance

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Tom Cheesewright on 11th June 2020.

What price a permanent position on the stage of your own home office? How do we cope when our working success is measured by constant communication?

Change: Separating plastic from elastic

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Tom Cheesewright on 3rd June 2020.

Engineers talk about elastic change that springs back, & plastic – permanent – change. When talking about the lockdown, people frequently confuse the two.

How Coronavirus will change our lives

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Tom Cheesewright on 12th March 2020.

The effects of coronavirus on life, work and culture will depend in many ways how long the pandemic persists. Will it be weeks or months?

Future careers: tell your own story

Posted by

Tom Cheesewright on 10th July 2019.

Future careers are different to those in the past, not just because of novel jobs but because of a fundamental change in the structure of our working lives

Tomorrow’s worker is always performing, and that might not be healthy

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Tom Cheesewright on 27th June 2019.

When you’re living on the edge, you’re always exposed. Tomorrow’s worker may always be performing and that may have a cost to their mental health.

Future Job: Algorithm Archaeologist

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Tom Cheesewright on 21st May 2019.

Algorithm archaeologists will help us dig through layers of complexity to understand the bias inherent in our systems and automated decisions

The future of recruitment

Posted by

Tom Cheesewright on 9th May 2019.

The future of recruitment will be defined by high frequency change and the response of our organisations to that challenge.

Invent your own future job

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Tom Cheesewright on 1st February 2019.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Hard to answer when 85% of jobs in 2030 may not have been invented yet. Maybe you can invent your own future job?