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The future of work requires an internally validated identity born of self-awareness and coupled with learning agility and adaptability; this all points to re-imagining high school....

To help Canadians prepare for this future, and more specifically their future employment, the Brookfield Institute’s report Turn and Face the Strange identifies 31 trends with the potential to affect...

As automation takes over routine tasks, what will happen to "on-ramp" jobs that allow workers to do something simple and useful in the middle of the action, get paid, build...

The trend toward automation is often discussed in terms of the financial and practical benefits of a division of labor: When are machines better equipped to tackle a task than...

Technological efficiencies will result in the biggest reduction in headcount across the U.S. banking industry in its history, with an estimated 200,000 job cuts over the next decade, Wells Fargo &...

OECD analysis estimates that up to 36% of Australian adults work in jobs whose tasks could change significantly as a result of technological progress. For many individuals, these changes mean...

When machines start picking off all the easy work for themselves, many white-collar jobs are going to get a lot harder. As AI gets better at performing the routine tasks...

The advancement of technology, globalization and the corporate view that employees are disposable have all changed the game. We can no longer view our careers as safe and sacrosanct....

Interestingly, there’s no evidence that middle-skill jobs are disappearing in Canada, according to my findings. Rather, I’ve observed a steady decline in low-skill manual and service occupations throughout the period...

The future of work is perpetually upon us. Like an action film story, we cannot get in front of it fast enough. We feel the acceleration – plot outlines, dialogue...