The Future of Work

How will we work in the future?

Certainly not like we did yesterday?

The assembly-line approach – mountains of paper, piles of ring binders, constant phone calls distracting us from the task at hand, plus endless meetings where the most talkative participants ramble on in monologues and nothing gets decided; and then the managers dictate what needs to be done anyway, forcing people – those who actually do the work – to rush from one task to the next, leaving far too much unfinished. It is a waste, driven by the whims and decisions of those in ‘bullshit jobs’.

Of course, we know better, but we carry on as before because that is what is demanded from above.

If we want to be kind about it, we call it ‘occupational therapy’.

Sorry, that’s not how it works. This vision is dysfunctional.

New Work (with its key aspects of ‘psychological safety’, ‘flow’ and ‘rhythm’) is not obsolete simply because current decision-makers have decided so.

In fact, the exact opposite is true.

„Emotional intelligence lies at the root of collaboration. Empathy is rocket fuel for an evolutionary shift,“ writes Dr. Hannah Critchlow, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge and author of the bestseller *The 21st Century Brain*.

We will adapt – not least to the fact that emotions are key.