Predicting the future of work

Much is being written about what the future of work will look like and it what it means for organisations and employees. A lot of debate and discussion focuses on the downside of future technology, including the risks of excluding less skilled employees and the various unintended consequences arising from increased automation. But how useful is it to gaze into our organisational crystal ball and how good are we at making predictions?

We would argue that we should be quite sceptical and cautious when it comes to predictions about the future workplace, for some very good reasons:

1. We’re not very good at predictions