Working Assumptions
Anxiety, Technology and Change Unite the Modern Global Workforce
“The United State of Work” has emerged with managers and staff alike disillusioned by working life failing to meet their expectations.
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Turbulence is here to stay and stability is long gone. That’s my overall working assumption.
The five-year plan? Forget it. Five months is more practical. The combination of Covid and ChatGPT has shortened the time horizon against which we work. Trying to lengthen it again, invoking stop–start delays and pushback, as has broadly happened with return-to-office policies, is a management mistake. Iterating, learning, listening, responding: This is the opportunity.