The website of economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth, expert in demographics, global trends and the future of work
Let’s face facts: tech is indeed replacing workers, especially at places like grocery stores where simple functions like scanning labels can be done without employees. A labor group in Oregon wants to legislate that away, but can you even do that? Read more here in my blog for the Globe and Mail here.
Maybe we will have a recession, maybe we won’t, and anyway by all means use a different word if you prefer.’Slowdown’, ‘Soft Patch’, ‘Downturn’, any of them will do, and any might describe where the economy will be by next year. If we do hit that soft patch though, are layoffs inevitable? In the past […]
One of the big worries regarding the future of work is that jobs are going to disappear altogether, replaced by breathtaking technology and clever robots. That is happening to an extent, but apparently some dregs are being left for humans, for better or work. ‘Ghost Work’ refers to things like writing captions for images or […]
Do not get me wrong, I love tourism as an industry and have huge respect for its economic force. I want to see it grow, and frankly I want to keep travelling myself. However, I cannot ignore the conflicts between tourism and climate change and environmental damage, and even if I wanted too the hostility […]
Did a shift in corporate culture have anything to do with the issues with the Boeing 737 Max, the (now grounded) plane that was involved in two accidents in recent months? Maybe we will never know the truth of that accusation (which comes from a union official) but the just the thought of it reinforces […]
An hour to answer questions about the future of work – what could be better? I really enjoyed the hour I spent on CBC Radio earlier this week, supposedly talking about a re-think of the five-day work week but in fact covering all kinds of subjects around work. Great questions, from callers, we could have […]
When I speak to employer groups about the future of work, they are often keen to know what they should do to both attract and hold on to workers. In tight markets, that often means attract anyone, anyone at all, they are not fussy. Still, even in markets where unemployment rates are relatively high there […]
It is almost like an urban myth: we were supposed to get a wave of baby boomer retirements that were going to make it a seller’s market for younger workers. And it is happening – except that it is apparently more like a splash than a full wave. So it boomers are not going, what […]
The future of work is a huge subject, not one that can really be tackled by in a forty minute period, but we gave it a shot at the Globe and Mail’s recent Future Forward conference. I was part of a panel that touched on such subjects as the gig economy, the prospects for younger […]
Will cutting-edge layaway plans be the salvation of the retail sector and the broader economy, or are they a disaster waiting to happen? The newest experiments in making it consumer payments easy is creative, but may not bring the long-term results that retailers hope to see. Sure, they are being done through a cutting-edge Swedish […]
