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In this episode, Linda Nazareth talks to Dina Denham Smith, lead author of of Emotionally Charged: How to Lead in the New World of Work about the way to lead when workers are worried about job security. Amongst the topics they cover are: Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future […]
In this episode, Linda Nazareth talks to Kristina Rapuano, Research Scientist at Better Up Labs about the ways that AI Workslop is makng workers less productive. They cover topics including: Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of five books including her most recent Working it […]
As return to work mandates multiply, office spaces are being pushed to evolve with the policy shifts. Planning for the right mix of desks and meeting areas is difficult, as is even getting workers to want to come back to a physical office. Good design could help but getting things is not an easy task.In […]
In this episode, Linda Nazareth talks to Melissa Swift, Founder and CEO of Anthrome Insight LLC about Melissa’s recent article talking about the things that firefighters could teach corporate leaders. Amongst the things they cover in the episode: Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of […]
Demographic trends are wildly different across the world, and I was reminded of that recently when I gave a keynote presentation to a small group of leaders at Maple Bear Canadian School. Maple Bear is a global education enterprise that operates in 30 countries, and as part of their strategic planning exercises they asked me […]
e Thank you to Workday for inviting me to give a virtual keynote about the outlook for the economy and for work and the pivotal role that productivity will play in giving us the future that we want. We have many challenges as we head for 2026, so strategic planning and making the best choices […]
Is Gen Z lazy or do they have their priorities in order? There seems to be some debate over that topic judging from the comments I got on my latest column for the Globe and Mail(read it here) The column cited a recent study from Glassdoor showing that many Gen Z workers are not that […]
There is no stopping the oncoming train of artificial intelligence, with all that that means for the workplace. At the very least, it will mean training workers with new AI skills but it also means continuously retraining them to keep up with changes in technology. It will be a mammoth task. In this episode of […]
It was a privilege to be part of the discussion about women and money at last week’s #HerMoneyMatters event held by HomeEquity Bank. Thank you to my fellow panellists for sharing your thoughts and experiences and for letting me share mine. Financial literacy for women is such an important topic, let’s keep the conversation going!
Who can resist the temptation? If you need to write anything these days, the easiest (and some think the best) thing to do is to start with letting AI technologies draft it for you. In doing that, however, it is easy to lose your own voice and create content that is cookie-cutter at best. If […]
