Episodios

  • Upwork’s Hayden Brown: Bridging volatility with contingency

    Upwork’s Hayden Brown: Bridging volatility with contingency
    May 8 2025
    "Freelance by choice" can sound like a rationalization—or putting on a brave face—but has the contract labor market improved for white-collar workers, as more, particularly younger professionals, opt in? A look at the benefits for both sides of the bargain and how AI changes the calculus.
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    29 m
  • ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global talent equation

    ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global talent equation
    Apr 23 2025
    The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work, international talent flows, and the up-skilling imperative in the face growing polarization.
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    47 m
  • Redrawing the map to tech careers: Per Scholas CEO Plinio Ayala on skills, mobility, and AI

    Redrawing the map to tech careers: Per Scholas CEO Plinio Ayala on skills, mobility, and AI
    Apr 9 2025
    After decades preparing workers from underserved communities for well-paid tech jobs, the workforce nonprofit is expanding its training, footprint, and funding strategy for its tuition-free programs. As AI redefines positions across the org chart, can bootcamps plus training top-ups, and a mix of hard and soft skills future-proof the Per Scholas formula?
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    34 m
  • Erik Brynjolfsson on how AI is rewriting the rules of the economy

    Erik Brynjolfsson on how AI is rewriting the rules of the economy
    Mar 26 2025
    The Stanford economist unpacks AI’s impact on work and productivity, its limitations, and wider implications. He also lays out what organizations can do to get more out of the technology as they invest in the transformation. And he updates his longstanding research into augmenting traditional GDP metrics to capture the value of digital goods and services.
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    36 m
  • Cal Newport on slow productivity and next-wave AI

    Cal Newport on slow productivity and next-wave AI
    Mar 12 2025
    Joe Fuller welcomes back the Georgetown computer scientist and leading observer of knowledge work, who reprises his argument against busyness as the default mode. Also, cracking the productivity code, parsing AI's potential, and better work-life balance.
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    41 m
  • David Deming on workforce shifts and the future of college

    David Deming on workforce shifts and the future of college
    Feb 26 2025
    AI's early impact on the labor market: Are claims of revolutionary change overblown? The Harvard economist presents the long view on technological disruption and updates the post-secondary picture.
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    38 m
  • Ed Glaeser on Cities, Work, and Why America Struggles to Build

    Ed Glaeser on Cities, Work, and Why America Struggles to Build
    Feb 12 2025
    The Harvard urban economist assesses the post-Covid health of cities, rural development, zoning and the stagnation of the U.S. housing industry, the impact of AI, and more.
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    35 m
  • Positive prompts: Sal Khan on AI in the classroom and beyond

    Positive prompts: Sal Khan on AI in the classroom and beyond
    Jan 29 2025
    Will the technology democratize access to world-class education or increase inequality? Khan's journey from highly informed skeptic to champion of ethical AI. The HBS graduate and Khan Academy founder explains his nonprofit's pioneering strategy. Also, workforce development, competency-based learning, and skills-based hiring.
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    36 m
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