The website of economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth, expert in demographics, global trends and the future of work
I recently had the chance to do a great interview with Anne Gaviola of VICE on ‘How Not to be Replaced by a Robot at Work’. For those of you who are not aware, VICE is a site that primarily attracts those under the age of 35 and as a group they have specific concerns. […]
In my latest column for the Globe and Mail I write about the controversial subject of a robot tax. In one sense it is fair enough: if you hire workers you have to pay a payroll tax, so if you go with robots (or cobots, who are broad-minded enough to work alongside humans) shouldn’t you […]
I am thrilled to now be writing a bi-weekly column for the Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. See my first here – it is a look at how the gig economy is in force but our social policies are woefully out of step with it.
Is there a better way to see the future of work than to follow the drama that is Uber? The ride-hailing service burst on to the scene in San Francisco just about six years ago and nothing has been the same ever since. From how to manage a gig workforce through to how technology is […]
North America is aging, and a lot of the rest of the world is aging as well. It is something to think about as we consider where we are going to get the labor we need to grow our economies in the years ahead. That is, for decades we in North America have been able […]
There are a lot of things robots can do, but they cannot make societies any younger. Canada and the U.S. are aging – there is little debate about that. What exactly that will mean for the labor force and the economy is a bit more up for grabs, but to get an idea of how […]
Robots, joined by Gig Workers, are now making Twinkies, and they are doing such a good job that their parent company is going public. That’s a powerful statement about today’s manufacturing and economy, never mind our nutritional preferences. Twinkies, those flaky, cream-filled snack cakes that are apparently beloved by many, have been a business news […]
Really, it seemed like the universal basic income (UBI), was going to be the hot new thing in economic policy. It sounds like such a simple solution to economic woes, so uncomplicated, just so basic really. Give every citizen in a country some form of stipend so that at the very least everyone has enough […]
The rise of Robo Advisors highlights a trend of jobs traditionally thought of as high skill potentially being replaced by technology
If you grew up watching The Jetsons, how can you be afraid of Robots? And really, given that it the show about the space age family has run in repeats forever (it was first broadcast in the early 1960s, and then some new episodes were made in the 1980s as well) most people in their […]
