AI, automation and digital tools dominate today’s conversations about the future of work. Yet 96% of the C-suite expects AI investments to boost productivity, while 77% of employees say AI has actually added to their workload and hampered productivity, resulting in a productivity paradox.
While much of today’s effort is focused on low-risk efficiency gains, this approach risks limiting more meaningful transformation. Randstad Digital encourages leaders to ask different questions: What can we do today that we couldn’t do before? How can we meaningfully enhance worker satisfaction and improve lives, and how does AI fit into it all?
fresh perspectives on work, value and AI.
Randstad Digital’s whitepaper A Glimpse of the Future of Work is not a technology forecast. It aims to provoke and expand executive thinking by exploring feasible, forward-looking and non-obvious ideas about how work could evolve as AI becomes more deeply embedded in organizations and daily life.
in it, you’ll explore:
- The rise of the value engineer: How the automation of repetitive, low-value activities could shift worker roles toward reengineering processes, experience design and value creation.
- Meet your virtual you (“Vyou”): A future-looking exploration of AI-powered digital counterparts that optimize your most critical resource—time—allowing for a better work-life balance.
- Instant onboarding and the flex workforce: How digital knowledge bases allow job-knowledge to be transferred to a Vyou or AI agent instantly, making cost-intensive training a relic of the past.
- The path to autonomous intelligence: A clear-eyed look at the leap from GenAI “prompts” to self-directed Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
