Work Transformation Quotes

Transformation in the nature of work tend to brings wrenching social changes in their wake.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

The progressive integration of new technologies in our economy amounts to a paradigm shift with a profound impact on the context and content of work.

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.

As economies have evolved, the nature of work has always changed.

I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

Trends such as skills imbalances, the gig economy, and digitization are transforming work so quickly that policy creation is lagging behind.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Thanks to globalization and the technology revolution, the nature of work, the distribution of the rewards from that work, and maybe even the economic cycle itself are being transformed.

The impact of technology on labor has become clearer and clearer by the day.

Warp speed developments in technology - automation, artificial intelligence, and the arrival of the sharing economy - are transforming how we work. Beyond technology, traditional working patterns are also being disrupted by changes in society, organizations and workforce management, leading to the rise of a more independent and dispersed workforce.

The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living.