WORKERS engaged in manual labor before and during the First Industrial Revolution. In 1920, the ratio between manual laborers (blue-collar workers) and knowledge workers (white-collar employees or ...

It's amazing how things around us change, and yet so many people keep doing the same-ole-same-ole and end up wondering what happened. For instance, our research shows that elite financial advisors are ...

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 ...

Going to school teaches you a lot about the world. But how much of it actually prepares you for the complexities of the workplace? For example, remember when teachers said, “You won’t always have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A customer looks at a laptop computer with Microsoft Copilot+ installed on display at the Best Buy store on June 18, 2024, in Miami, Florida. AI PC adoption slowed this year in the context or ...

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 ...

AI stands to create widespread societal change. That means we humans need to ask some big questions about our purpose. As AI rewires the knowledge-worker economy, we must reflect on what it is that ...

Knowledge workers say they would delegate 27% of their work to AI agents today and expect this to grow to more than 40% in 3 years, according to Asana’s State of AI at Work report, released Sept. 25.