The Future Of Less Work

What happens when AI can write, analyze, create, and automate many of the tasks we've traditionally associated with expertise? What skills will matter most when intelligence is available to everyone? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Shawn Casey, Co-Founder of Noria , to explore a surprisingly optimistic vision of the future of work. Rather than f...

Will AI replace jobs? What happens when AI agents and robotics become cheaper, faster, and more scalable than human workers? And how will AI impact wages, inequality, and the future of capitalism? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Rob Garlick, author of  AI – Anarchy or Abundance?  and Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey , to explore how ar...

Why are so many enterprise AI adoption projects failing? What happens when AI stops being a visible tool and becomes invisible infrastructure embedded directly into workflows?   In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Darren Kimura, CEO of AI Squared , to explore what he calls the “last mile” problem of enterprise AI transformation: the gap between successf...

What happens when companies say they can’t find talent while millions of highly skilled people remain underutilized? Why are qualified doctors, engineers, and technologists still overlooked in a labor market desperate for talent? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Gregory Haile, CEO of Upwardly Global, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and Chair...

What happens when every employee starts building their own AI second brain and performance is no longer defined by experience, but by the intelligence you build around yourself? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Brian Madden, Futurist at Citrix Systems , to explore how individuals are creating personal AI “second brains” that reshape how they think, d...

Why are so many organizations investing heavily in AI and still struggling to create meaningful business value from it? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Alex Bombeck, CEO of North Highland , to explore why AI is forcing companies to rethink the architecture of work itself. As AI changes not just the tools people use but the work itself, Alex argues t...

What happens when AI moves beyond software and into the physical world—through robots and humanoid robots working alongside humans? How do organizations redesign work when machines don’t just support decisions, but actually execute tasks? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Burkhard Boeckem, Chief Technology Officer at Hexagon , to explore how “physical...

What does it actually take to hire the best person for the job no matter where they are in the world? In this episode of The Future of Less Work , host Nirit Cohen sits down with Sagar Khatri, CEO and co-founder of Multiplier , to explore what’s really behind the promise of global hiring. The idea sounds simple: if talent exists everywhere, companies should be able to access it from anywhere. But...

What happens when employees can do more than their organizations allow? As AI takes on execution, people are gaining the ability to direct work, make decisions, and own outcomes. But most organizations are not built to absorb that shift. In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Jared Spataro, Chief Marketing Officer, AI at Work at Microsoft , to explore the...

What really happens when AI enters a large organization? How does it reshape roles, skills, and work itself? In this episode of The Future of Less Work , host Nirit Cohen sits down with Maryjo Charbonnier, former Chief Human Resources Officer at Kyndryl , to explore what it actually takes to translate AI from strategy into workforce reality inside a large, complex organization undergoing transform...

As AI moves from supporting work to performing it, organizations face a far more complex challenge than adopting new tools. They must redesign how work itself is structured, measured, and managed when part of the workforce is no longer human. In this episode  of The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Brandon Metcalf, Founder and CEO of Asymbl , to explore what it really means...

Why are so many companies trying to return to the old rules of work just as technology is pushing organizations forward? And what happens when leaders treat AI primarily as a cost-cutting tool instead of using it to expand human potential? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Brian Elliott, CEO of Work Forward  and a leading voice in the conversation abo...

What actually pushes someone from thinking about change to finally doing something about it? Why do some people leave their jobs while others renegotiate their relationship with work instead? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Anthony Klotz ,  professor of organizational behavior at UCL School of Management  and the researcher credited with coining the...

What happens when AI moves into places where error is not an option like banking approvals, medical claims, pharmaceutical compliance, the future of work becomes legal, operational, and deeply human. In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Arya Bolurfrushan, Founder and CEO of AppliedAI , to explore what happens when automation enters highly regulated, miss...

As AI accelerates across organizations, most conversations still focus on tools, pilots, and productivity gains. But AI is also exposing cracks that were already there - misaligned leadership, siloed systems, fragile middle layers, and outdated assumptions about how transformation works. In this episode of The Future of Less Work , host Nirit Cohen sits down with Barbara Wittmann , founder of the...

AI is no longer just another workplace technology. It is a general-purpose capability that is beginning to reshape how work is designed, how decisions are made, and how organizations create value. In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  David Mallon, Chief Futurist and Head of Research for Deloitte’s Human Capital practice , to unpack the biggest insights f...

What if the biggest barrier to AI transformation isn’t technology at all, but the fact that most organizations don’t actually understand how work gets done? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Vijay Swaminathan, co-founder and CEO of Draup , to explore what really breaks when AI meets industrial-age assumptions about jobs, roles, and headcount. The conv...

When work breaks apart into tasks and AI steps in as a real participant, not just a helper, the familiar structure of jobs begins to unravel. The real question becomes how work gets recomposed, who orchestrates it, and how people redefine their value when execution is no longer the core of the role. In this episode of The Future of Less Work , host Nirit Cohen sits down with Carrol Chang , Preside...

When AI stops being experimental and starts acting inside everyday workflows, the conversation about work changes completely. The question is no longer which tools to deploy, but who gets to redesign how work actually happens. In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Bhavin Shah ,  co-founder and CEO of   Moveworks , to explore what happens inside organizati...

Why do meetings feel like the place where work goes to die and what would it take to finally fix them? In this episode of The Future of Less Work , host Nirit Cohen sits down with Dr. Rebecca Hinds , organizational researcher, founder of Asana’s Work Innovation Lab , founder of the Work AI Institute at Glean , and author of Your Best Meeting Ever , to unpack why meetings became one of the most bro...

What happens when AI agents stop assisting work and start reshaping how value moves through an organization? And what does that mean for people, roles, and leadership when velocity matters more than productivity? In this episode of The Future of Less Work , host Nirit Cohen sits down with Tim Sanders , Chief Innovation Officer at G2 , to explore how agentic AI is changing the very mechanics of wor...

What if the biggest signals about the future of work aren’t coming from boardrooms or technology labs but from workers themselves? ManpowerGroup’s 2026 Global Talent Barometer reveals a global workforce that feels confident in its skills, uneasy about AI, eager for stability, and increasingly determined to reshape the role work plays in their lives. In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , ho...

What happens when competitive advantage no longer comes from having the right plan, but from how quickly you can adapt when the plan stops working? In this episode of The Future of Less Work , host Nirit Cohen sits down with Arjan Singh , author of Competitive Success , to explore what strategy looks like in a world defined by uncertainty, AI, and constant disruption. As organizations move away fr...

What happens when artificial intelligence meets work that can’t be fully documented, standardized, or abstracted?   In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Shin Nakamura, President of ONE to ONE Holdings , to explore the limits of AI through the lens of manufacturing. Drawing on his experience leading factories across Japan and Vietnam, Shin offers a ground...

What if the most important skill for the future of work isn’t technical or strategic—but human? In this episode of  The Future of Less Work , host  Nirit Cohen  sits down with  Claude Silver , the world’s first  Chief Heart Officer  and No. 2 executive at  VaynerX , to explore what it really means to lead with heart. As the right hand to Gary Vaynerchuk, Claude has built a culture where empathy, b...