Why we don’t need the four-day workweek — or weekends
The battle over whether remote employees should be forced back into the office is based on a false belief: people working from home slack off more than in-office workers.
Stories by Mike Elgan
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6 surprising facts about ChatGPT nobody told you
Everybody’s talking about ChatGPT, the OpenAI tool that writes poetry, prose, and even software code like a human.
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How ‘synthetic media’ will transform business forever
The biggest technology-driven trend to affect business in the coming years is synthetic media. Yet this phrase is rarely even uttered in boardrooms and on Zoom meetings.
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Bashing 4 new myths about digital nomads
The digital nomad honeymoon is over, and the backlash has begun. Here are the new myths — and the facts — about digital nomads.
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Smartphone satellite expectations will soon crash to Earth
A new technology revolution enables everyday smartphones to connect to space. But the business benefit isn’t really there at this stage.
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It's time to quit quitting on the quiet quitters
Disengaged employees who choose to do less at work is a problem that needs solving. Here's what you can do.
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What businesses need to know about the metaverse office of the future
Yes, the vast array of technologies that fall under the “metaverse” umbrella will come to the workplace. But, no, we will not work in the metaverse.
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Don’t get too emotional about emotion-reading AI
Artificial intelligence tools now try to figure out whether people are happy, sad or disgusted. The reality may surprise and anger you.
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Why meetings don't work anymore
Meetings don't work. Or, at least, the majority of staff meetings are time-wasting, productivity-killing, creativity-stifling products of wishful or delusional thinking.
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Why open-plan offices are a disaster for businesses
The best thing employers can do for happy, loyal, and productive staff is to let them work when and where they want — the worst thing: an open-plan office.
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The future of work? There's an app for that: Airbnb
If there's any tech company that really gets the evolution of work, it's Airbnb. Here's why it gets what's going on.
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There’s just one thing businesses can do about the ‘splinternet’ — adapt
It’s time to let go of the belief that a single global internet was ever going to be possible and embrace the real world of many separate internets.
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Assessing Google’s ‘translation glasses’
Forget language translation. This is Google Glass, but socially acceptable this time. And it could open a lot of AR doors.
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The trouble with hybrid work
Hybrid work — that's the answer. Employees can work part time in the office, part time at home, right? Problem solved or maybe not?
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Are we destined to work in the metaverse?
In a recent interview with Lex Fridman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described a future in which our workplace would exist in the so-called "metaverse."
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