Future of Work: What Job Roles Will Look Like In 10 Years [Updated]

Prediction for future of work: Knowledge workers will be able to specialize, have ultimate flexibility work when they want and how they want.

so much of the way we’ve derived our identity, our sense of accomplishment, achievement, contribution, value, self-worth, is subject to radical overhaul in the next decade and the one following that and beyond. More jobs will be automated, augmented, enhanced, and yes, eliminated. And certainly new jobs will be created, but we can’t wait for them t... See more

In this new future of work, jobs will be more transient and dynamic — switching costs between jobs will be lower, opportunities will be more visible, work will be reduced down into more atomic units, and the entire world will be unified under a single workforce with access to all opportunities. We will discover new opportunities based on our on-cha... See more

A 2017 McKinsey Global Institute report said 75 million to 375 million workers may need to switch their occupations by 2030 as “digitization, automation and artificial intelligence” disrupt the way we work. In the same report, 62% of executives said they believe they will need to retrain or replace more than a quarter of their workforce by 2023.

The future of AI is full of paradoxes: productivity versus job displacement, innovation versus inequality, empowerment versus dependency, and enhancement versusdehumanisation.

Over time, the three stages of the future of work will blur together. Companies will offer all-in-one services across training, discovery, and on-the-job tools. It’s easy to imagine Figma, for example, training workers in Figma and helping workers find jobs where they can use Figma.

The 2010s were all about changing how people viewed work. Let’s think about what this does to the 2020s. My view of it is because so often people don’t want to be full-time hires, it means that businesses need to figure out how to integrate this flexible talent into their workflows. This is to me what this decade is going to be all about.