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Future Work
A weekly column and podcast on the remote, hybrid, and AI-driven future of work. By FlexOS founder Daan van Rossum.

A Summer for Leaders to Relearn Joy
Burnout steals joy quietly. Most feel just 1 joyful hour a day. This summer, reset. Reconnect with what energizes you—and help your team do the same. Joy is not rare, just overlooked.

A Summer for Leaders to Relearn Joy
Burnout steals joy quietly. Most feel just 1 joyful hour a day. This summer, reset. Reconnect with what energizes you—and help your team do the same. Joy is not rare, just overlooked.

AI Is Creating Jobs We Never Imagined
AI may take jobs—but it will invent new ones. Robert Capps maps future roles built on trust, integration, and taste. From AI auditors to world designers, human creativity becomes the edge.

What Comes After the Replacement Talk? New Jobs
AI may take jobs—but it will invent new ones. Robert Capps maps future roles built on trust, integration, and taste. From AI auditors to world designers, human creativity becomes the edge.

Vibe Teaming: The AI Collaboration Worth Trying
Vibe teaming invites AI into team convos from the start—co-creating drafts, freeing humans to think. It’s not just about tools, but reshaping how leaders guide collaboration.

HR's New Model: Stop Serving, Start Building Products
HR as a product team, building end-to-end, user-centered solutions with the same mindset as tech.

"To Flatten the Trough, HR Must Become the Product Team" (Volker Jacobs)
Volker Jacobs says HR must become a product team—embedding AI, redesigning roles around users, and building trust through iterative transformation to flatten the trough of disillusionment.

DEI Means Designing Systems for Meritocracy
DEI hasn’t failed—it’s been misunderstood. Denise Brouder reframes it as systems design, not politics, where fairness, leadership, and small acts drive lasting culture change.

Denise Brouder: DEI hasn’t failed, but it has lost its shared understanding
Denise Brouder reframes DEI as a systems challenge, rooted in fairness, not politics, and driven by managers, small acts, and clear, inclusive principles at work.

Simon Sinek: AI Can't Struggle For You
Simon Sinek urges leaders to protect human traits AI can't replicate—courage, empathy, struggle, and connection—reminding us that true leadership means embracing imperfection, not avoiding it.

Dave Ulrich: 4Ps That Make HR Matter
Dave Ulrich and David Green reveal why HR must shift from tasks to outcomes—using "so that" to link every initiative to customer, investor, and business value. A mindset reset for modern HR.

Moderna Merges HR & IT
Moderna merged HR and IT under one leader to align talent and tech for AI readiness—signaling a shift from static roles to dynamic flows of work.

Moderna Merges HR & IT: Chief People & Digital Technology manages 3,000 AI's and 5,800 humans
Moderna merged HR and IT under one leader to align talent and tech for AI readiness—signaling a shift from static roles to dynamic flows of work.

Remote Work: From Debate to Design, Finally
Remote work has moved past debate. At Running Remote 2025, leaders shared how to design for clarity, trust, and real impact—across AI, inclusion, leadership, and culture.

Insights from Running Remote 2025: No More Debates, Only Design
Remote work has moved past debate. At Running Remote 2025, leaders shared how to design for clarity, trust, and real impact—across AI, inclusion, leadership, and culture.

Microsoft: Every Role Is About to Shift
Microsoft says AI is now a utility—yet only those who redesign work, train every employee as an agent boss, and blend judgment with agents will lead the next decade of performance.

Gallup: Upgrade Managers to Coaches, Reclaim Trillions
Gallup’s 2025 report shows global engagement and wellbeing have fallen to pandemic-era lows. Burned-out managers are the biggest driver—impacting team output, retention, and costing billions in lost productivity.

Joy: The Most Underrated KPI
Companies are redesigning work for joy—with cats, zen rooms, and Focus Fridays—because happiness isn’t a perk anymore, it’s the new productivity hack.

Shopify Hiring: Prove AI Can’t First
Shopify CEO says employees must prove AI can’t do the job before requesting more headcount—AI is now the first teammate, not a future idea.

Build Teams That Think Like CEOs
Build commercially-minded teams by promoting innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and psychological safety, boosting revenue, cutting costs, and improving retention.

Gartner: 4 Productivity Myths Killing Business
Gartner reveals 4 productivity myths CEOs believe in, with HR involvement boosting productivity by 11%. Addressing them could increase productivity by 35%.

The One Trait Driving 1.9x Performance
Gartner research indicates that organizations focusing on potential rather than just skill proficiency in hiring practices achieve up to 1.9 times better performance outcomes.

(Recap + Playbook) AI vs Humans in HR (With Dr. Rebecca Hinds and Anthony Onesto)
HR leaders must guide AI adoption by starting small, encouraging safe use, personalizing training, aligning tools with workflows, and fostering trust—turning innovation into human-centered progress.

Teams Are Overwhelmed, Learning is Key, and more from the FlexOS Network
Docebo, Starbucks, and Walmart CLO: As AI reshapes work, real-time, in-flow learning is key. Companies must shift to dynamic, skill-based growth—or fall behind.
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Brandon Carson on AI, Learning, and the Great Workforce Reckoning: How Companies Can Transform into Learning Ecosystems—Now
Current Docebo CLO and former Starbucks and Walmart Learning Leader, Brandon Carson, explains why traditional learning models fail in the AI era—and the three key shifts organizations must make now.
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