The Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology

This was originally posted on LinkedIn for the Milken Institute Global Conference. It is based on the soon-to-be-released findings of Shift: The Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology, a joint project of New America and Bloomberg to understand the future of work.

A few years ago, “gamification” advocates, notably Jane McGonigal, Seth Preibatsch, and Gabe Zichermann, championed harnessing the power of games in service of productivity. It was a heady time. Calling gamers “super-empowered hopeful individuals” with “urgent optimism” and “extreme…

The Workweek picks this week include an article from the Wall Street Journal about Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen and the current state of the labor market which has made a net gain of about 15.5 million jobs since the depths of the Great Recession. The Atlanta Fed’s Wage Growth Tracker shows paychecks…

The Workweek picks this week include an article from the Economist that explores continuous education as the answer to technological change. Another article in the Economist finds that despite promises, politicians are not able to bring back well-paid manufacturing jobs because these jobs no longer exist. Similarly, the Upshot discusses how much…

This week’s Workweek picks include a story from the Harvard Business Review on why trade, offshoring, and immigration get more political attention than automation does. An article by the Pro-Market Blog discusses how the share of total income going to workers has fallen for decades while wages haven’t grown as…