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Knowledge workers are racing ahead with AI, but organisations still evaluate them as if they are working alone. How we measure human value has to change.
Generative AI is in the workplace already, so students should learn how to use it. But an early experiment shows generative AI is different than learning previous business apps.
With work at our fingertips at all hours of the day, it can be hard to disconnect. AI assistants may solve the problem – at least, that’s what big tech wants us to think.
Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.
Advising managers to ‘focus on clear objectives’ with remote workers overlooks the importance of relationships as the basis for understanding performance.
When working from home, women struggled more than men to find time for the sustained effort needed to produce good, publishable research. Lack of thinking time is a problem for all knowledge workers.
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Affiliate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Lecturer, Employment Relations, Griffith University
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Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, ARC Future Fellow, Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Vice Chancellor Emerita, University of Tennessee
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of AI and Analytics, Co-Director - La Trobe AI Institute, La Trobe University
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PhD Candidate, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
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Professor of Employment Relations, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor, School of Management, RMIT University
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Ethics and Labour Relations, University of Regina
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Florida International University