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How Claims About the Future of Work Are Built
Forecasts about jobs combine data, assumptions and storytelling. Learn the ingredients behind them and why scenarios are a fairer way to read them than predictions.
People and Platforms
Careers and Changing Work
How claims about jobs and the future of work are built.
Automation Forecasts and Why They Rarely Match Outcomes
How predictions about jobs and automation are built, the assumptions behind them, and the typical reasons real-world change turns out different from the forecast.
Burnout Talk at Work and How the Term Is Used
An educational look at how the word burnout spread in workplace conversation, why it is defined and measured in different ways, and what that means for claims about it.
Four-Day Week Pilots and What They Can Show
Trial schemes for shorter working weeks are often cited as proof. Learn what pilots can and cannot show, including self-selection and short time horizons.
Hybrid Work Policies and Reporting Bias
Company statements about hybrid arrangements often differ from daily practice. Learn why policy wording, surveys and attendance data can each give a skewed picture.
Job Hopping and Career Change Narratives
Popular stories say people now switch jobs and careers constantly. See how job movement is actually tracked and why stories and statistics can tell different tales.
Side Hustles and the Stories People Tell About Them
Online side hustle stories are vivid but unrepresentative. See why they are overrepresented, and how extra-income participation is actually studied and defined.
The Gig Economy and Why Definitions Change the Answer
How big is the gig sector? It depends on counting rules. See how definitions of gig work, main versus extra income and data sources change the picture.
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