The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights) by Harvard Business Review

The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights)

by Harvard Business Review

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Tech & Future

An HBR Insights collection of short essays on the changing nature of work — automation, AI, remote and hybrid arrangements, skill shifts, gig economy — written for executives needing a quick conceptual map.

Core ideas
  • Automation is treated as augmentation more often than replacement in the medium term — the harder management problem is redesigning jobs around new task mixes, not headcount.
  • Remote/hybrid work is treated as already-settled rather than contested — the question is operating-model design, not whether to do it.
  • "Skills over roles" is the recurring orientation: jobs are bundles of tasks that can be unbundled and rebundled, and HR systems built around role hierarchies are increasingly out of step with how work actually flows.
Published2021
Pages177
ISBN9781647822293
ReadNov 2023
knowledge work, productivity

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