The Future of work with Nick Skillicorn and Jeff Wald
In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with serial entrepreneur and investor Jeff Wald. Jeff’s most recent company, Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers was acquired by ADP in 2018.
We speak about some of research behind understanding how the job market has changed over the past decades, and what this says about how it will change in the future.
Topics mentioned in today’s episode:
00:02:30 – The myths about how the future of work will change, especially around remote workforces
00:08:00 – How workers and societies adjusted to the previous industrial revolutions, with more jobs being created than were lost
00:10:30 – The end of the job as we know it. We are moving towards fluid, team-based, work-from-anywhere work
00:14:30 – How to differentiate what different types of workers need and want
00:16:30 – The risk of automation and destroying low-skilled jobs, with examples of bank tellers and ATMs. It always takes longer than people anticipate
00:21:30 – The importance to systematise your workforce, and understand the skills needed to meet the demands of your customers
Links mentioned in today’s episode:
End of Jobs book: https://www.jeffwald.com/the-end-of-jobs
Jeff’s Website: https://www.jeffwald.com
