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The Future of Work at Skoll World Forum 2015
The future of work is not just about automating the forces changing our employment opportunities. It is also about new ways of getting things done together—collaborating and connecting with the use of new technologies and behaviors. This is the future of work that we explored at the 2015 Skoll World Forum.
The Skoll World Forum (@SkollWorldForum) is an opportunity each year for nearly 1,000 distinguished entrepreneurs and delegates from around the world to join critical debates and discussions for three days in Oxford, aimed at innovating, accelerating, and scaling solutions to social challenges.
At the Forum on April 15, IFTF's Bettina Warburg—a Skoll World Forum curator—planned a session bent on bringing together technological and societal perspectives on the future of work.
Highlights include discussion of:
- the difference between “the blob, the network, and the pyramid” of organizational capacity for social movements
- the latest collaborative technology innovations that Microsoft is studying and developing
- shifts from human to algorithmic management; hierarchical to participatory governance; and fixed to situational leadership.
Check out the video to hear from Microsoft Envisioning Office’s Executive Producer, David Jones (@davejo2), and Loomio co-founder, Ben Knight (@BenjaminMKnight).
Interested in learning more about the future of work?
- Find out about IFTF's Workable Futures Initiative
- Check out these other posts:
And follow us at @IFTF and look for more announcements about our Workable Futures Initiative soon.