Future of Work
We’re researching how businesses prepare for the post-COVID workplace. We’re working on tools to improve recruitment, skills assessments, remote worker productivity, and to safely manage and monitor smart buildings as employees return to the office.
Our work
Characterizing the evolution of tasks within occupations
ResearchMartin Fleming and Subhro Das4 minute read
Featured report
How universities can mind the skills gap
Our researchers co-authored a technical report on higher education and the future of work for the Center for the Governance of Change.
Publications
Resisting AI Solutionism: Where do we go from here?
- Gisela Reyes-cruz
- Velvet Spors
- et al.
- 2025
- CHI 2025
“I Really Need Your Help with This Work...”: A System for Navigating the Tricky Terrain of Managing Up by Leveraging One’s Motivation to Get Things Done
- Soya Park
- Stuti Vishwabhan
- et al.
- 2025
- CHI 2025
Generative AI in Digital Health
- Bo Wen
- Julia Liu
- et al.
- 2024
- DREAM 2024
Harnessing Growth-Mindedness to Enhance Organizational Effectiveness
- Jonathan Lenchner
- Anna Topol
- et al.
- 2024
- AHFE 2024
Death of the Design Researcher? Creating Knowledge Resources for Designers Using Generative AI
- Willem Van Der Maden
- Evert Van Beek
- et al.
- 2024
- DIS 2024
Drinking Chai with Your (AI) Programming Partner: Value Tensions in the Tokenization of Future Human-AI Collaborative Work
- 2024
- CHIWORK 2024
IBM Solution: IBM Workplace Health Advisor
Epidemiology models designed by IBM Research were developed into state-of-the-art capabilities for IBM Workplace Health Advisor, which helps organizations monitor and manage population health status and risk of COVID-19.
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