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Task Force News | January 20, 2020

4 strategies to redesign entry-level work to be more productive

Fast Company, Daniela Rus

Automation is changing the world. Perhaps no one is being impacted more quickly—or dramatically— than practitioners and designers of entry-level work.

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Task Force News | January 3, 2020

Robots will not be coming for our jobs just yet

Financial Times, David Autor

Opinion – Machines encroach on tasks, and we reorganize in response, becoming more productive.

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Task Force News | January 3, 2020

Blue-collar workers have every reason not to move to booming cities

Washington Examiner, David Autor

Commentators think that folks working in middle America’s formerly industrial areas are a bit dumb, or at least stubborn, for staying put. It's more complicated.

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Task Force News | December 27, 2019

The productive career of Robert Solow

Technology Review

Sure, economist Robert M. Solow won a Nobel for his research on technology, productivity, and growth. But his legacy as a mentor is equally remarkable.

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Task Force News | December 11, 2019

3 ways to reexamine the future digital workforce

MIT Sloan

Daniel Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing discussed the future of machines and the digital workforce.

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Task Force News | December 11, 2019

The Myth and Reality of How AI is Changing Work

PC Magazine

The way people talk about how jobs and work are changing due to AI and automation often doesn't match up with the reality, according to several speakers at MIT.

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Task Force News | December 10, 2019

In whose interests should business operate?

Chicago Booth Review, David Autor

Chicago Booth’s Initiative on Global Markets investigate what the ideas around stakeholder capitalism might mean for business across the US and Europe.

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Task Force News | December 10, 2019

Fostering forward momentum

MIT News, Julia Shah, Thomas Kochan

MIT professors honored by their graduate students as “Committed to Caring” for their uncanny ability to keep things moving along, even when the going gets tough.

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Task Force News | December 4, 2019

The case for growth centers: How to spread tech innovation across America

Brookings Institution

The future of America’s economy lies in its high-tech innovation sector, but it is now clear that same sector is widening the nation’s regional divides.

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Task Force News | December 4, 2019

Administrative assistant jobs helped propel many women into the middle class. Now they’re disappearing.

Washington Post

The US has shed more than 2.1 million administrative and office support jobs since 2000, eroding what was a reliable path to middle class for women without degrees.

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