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Long after they have finally landed a full-time job, many academics still find themselves feeling insecure and guilty, says Rachel Moss

Whenever I run Zoomly’s ‘How to plan and prioritise’ workshop, as the group identifies their daily ‘time bandits’, meetings loom large. Typical comments are that they take too long and deliver too little. No wonder that people fiddle with their phones…Are they really an essential, valuable of getting things done? Or just a waste of... Read more

While we're not able to predict the future, yet, here are the ten most important job skills (plus a bonus one) every company will be looking for in 2020.

Not since Dilbert has truth been spoken to power in soulless work settings. But the cartoon character’s successor may be David Graeber.

​Why do some companies struggle to create real value? In part, because employees spend their days completing routine tasks. We can turn things around by redefining work to focus on identifying and addressing unseen problems and opportunities.

In the next 12 years, 800 million people will lose their jobs to automation. But hairdressers, nurses, and artists are safe–for now.

Welcome to the unique world of corporate puppetry, where puppets inhabit the corporate environment and deal with the same issues that your company and its employees…

Last week I wrote that The Future of Work is not The Gig Economy. No surprise really, but sometimes it has to be said. The breathless commentaries that get written and reported on by futurists and commentators alike leave you… well... ‘breathless’ and with little time to think about what is being said.

The changes remote work has introduced have happened so gradually you may not have noticed. But its growing popularity is remaking how we work, the tools we use to work, how we communicate at work, and even the hours we work. It’s also connected to population shifts from big cities to less populated areas, and it’s upending sectors of commercial real estate, both in terms of how spaces are designed and where they’re located.

We must find balance between the forces of standardization and personalization if we are to be distinct in the ways we work and lead. Today, we are living in the extremes of both. This means we have created unhealthy environments. And we have been unhealthy for much too long.

The Future of Work and Learning

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here, and it is changing everything.

Very few of us hold jobs that line up directly with our past experiences or what we studied in college. Take TED Resident Jason Shen; he studied biology but later became a product manager at a tech company. In this quick, insightful talk about human potential, Shen shares some new thinking on how job seekers can make themselves more attractive -- and why employers should look for ability over credentials.

Nesta's study of 41 million job adverts reveals that not all digital skills will be equally valuable in the future and the most beneficial ones will involve creativity