Automation and Other Changes Ahead for Work forces - Connected World

The future of work discussion has always been an interesting one, but never so much as it is right now, because of how much has changed in the past 18 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, the shifts businesses needed to make to adjust to the new reality were so major that there just seems to be no going back to the former pre-pandemic status quo. In speaking with experts across industries, Connected World has found that enterprise leaders in just about every vertical believe the pandemic sped up trends that were already underway, like the shift to hybrid work models and the adoption of technologies that facilitate digital transformation in the enterprise, by several years. A new report offers some insight into how the workforce sees the future of work shaping up. Global Workplace Analytics and Owl Labs recently released the State of Remote Work 2021 report, which suggests looking forward to 2022, the theme will be adapting to a hybrid workplace and working on defining what that actually means.