WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF
During this keynote session keynote speaker Matthew Griffin discusses the future of work and the workforce, and shines the spotlight on the technologies and workplace experiments that will transform how and where we work, and who and what we work with.
Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, read our codexes, or browse my blog.
Firstly, thank you to Iain and Jo at ASM Technologies, a UK technology integrator, for asking me to be their keynote at their first ever European Summit held at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
With a mixed audience of executives from some of the UK’s largest technology companies and distributors we discussed the impact of technology on the future of work and society, as well as some more of the top of mind trends at the moment, such as the Metaverse.
The Future of Work and the Workforce, rewind and replay
During my presentation on the future of work I discussed the productivity conundrum that the world faces at the moment where global productivity is stagnating, in spite of technological advances. I also discussed the reasoning for several four day week experiments as companies try to dispense with old work norms and find new ways to boost productivity.
Then I moved onto the discuss the differences – for better and worse – between the automated, autonomous, and augmented technologies that are helping re-write and disrupt the world of work, and showed how even the most demanding and skilled jobs, such as construction and neurosurgery, are being decentralised as technology convergence helps people work in new ways from anywhere – even home. All for starters.