Work as you know it will be a relic of the past

Work as you know it will be a relic of the past.

You wake up, pour a coffee and join a call.

The first ten minutes are spent talking about why a colleague typed 1524 units in cell B4 of your shared spreadsheet.

It should be 1759 units, obviously.

In the afternoon, you complete your third rewrite of an offer for a new prospect.

You get a message just as you finish it.

The scope has changed.

Again.

This is a normal day for most knowledge workers.

In five years, this type of day will seem archaic, and as strange as it sounds, we’ll probably miss it.

We’ve been here before after farming gave way to factory work, and then that turned into the knowledge work most of us do today.

New tools automated the old jobs, and the nature of work changed with them.

AI agents are doing the same to desk jobs .

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