The Invisible Factory Floor: How AI Agents Are Re-Architecting Knowledge Work

Move beyond personal productivity. Discover how CEOs are using AI agents to build an "invisible factory floor"—decomposing, ...
Forbes

Intellectual Workers Are Coming For Your Job: Here’s How To Become One

The knowledge worker is dead. But before you panic, there’s good news: Intellectual workers are rising to take their place, and you can be one of them, if you’re up for the challenge. AI is as ...
Harvard Business Review

Using AI to Make Knowledge Workers More Effective

New AI capabilities that can recognize context, concepts, and meaning are opening up surprising new pathways for collaboration between knowledge workers and machines. Experts can now provide more of ...
Seeking Alpha

Upwork Study Finds 1 in 4 U.S. Skilled Knowledge Workers Now Work Independently, Generating $1.5 Trillion in Earnings

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Upwork Inc. (UPWK) (Nasdaq: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent, today unveiled its inaugural ...
HR Dive

Knowledge workers overwhelmed by maintenance tasks, survey finds

The findings represent the survey responses of 6,148 full-time knowledge workers from diverse industries across eight global markets, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany, Japan, France, the ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker

Knowledge workers, whose jobs involve handling information rather than producing goods, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization. But generative AI and a ...
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An AI-driven 'jobless recovery' could hit this group of workers particularly hard

There's one group of workers that could be in for a particularly rough time as AI becomes more integrated into the economy. Murat Tasci, a senior US economist at JPMorgan, thinks AI is poised to ...
Inc

Microsoft Says Workers are Already Using AI to Lighten Workloads, at Risk to Their Own Brainpower

The new study actually warns that some knowledge workers are risking becoming overly reliant on generative AI, and their “problem-solving skills may decline as a result,” technology news site The ...
Business Wire

APQC Survey Finds One Quarter of Knowledge Workers’ Time Is Lost Due to Productivity Drains

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new APQC study found that the average knowledge worker spends only 30 hours out of a 40-hour week on productive work, resulting in lower job satisfaction and greater ...