Our dialog about the future of work must expand this year. While professional office workers reevaluating their relationship to work and the movement for livable wages across the country and industries have taken center stage, a number of other factors are going to increasingly play a role in the future of work.
The securing of fragile supply chains by reshoring American manufacturing will create more jobs and eventually address rising prices–which raising interest rates does not seem to be doing. The explosion of COVID in China and the continuing Russian war on Ukraine will continue to disrupt global stability–as energy, manufacturing, and food production remain threatened. All of these factors will influence who will be working and from where.
I am beginning to examine the impacts of changing demography, spreading nationalism, and general geopolitical shifts. I look forward to sharing insights on how the economics of measuring human value, especially social capital, will evolve under these pressures.