FutureworkNZ blog

Like us, most of you will be at home, keeping to your bubbles, isolating from others and maybe worki…

To succeed in an unpredictable and changing world, adaptability is the key. Let’s be chameleons. Tec…

In my last post, I talked about how the rough and tumble of reallocation led to productivity growth,…

Our technological change and the future of work inquiry has turned the hose on some burning platform…

I’ve got some bad news about Santa Claus. The North Pole may be far, but it’s not too far to avoid t…

I’m sure you’ve heard some version of this popular prediction – about two-thirds of children enterin…

Low business investment is a problem for tech adoption.  Interest rates don’t provide a convincing e…

Crazily low interest rates but NZ businesses are not investing. Why not?

It’s an important question…

If you’ve read anything about technological change and the future of work – or even if you’ve just G…

The first of the Productivity Commission’s reports on technological change and the future of work is…

As a small country that’s far away from most of the world, it’s not surprising that many have worrie…

Many, many things affect whether a firm will adopt a technology, and whether this adoption will be s…

Can you ‘infect’ someone with digital skills? It may sound like an odd question but let me explain…
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Forty-five percent of people who don’t use the internet say they have no interest in the internet or…

A decline in the labour income share (LIS) is not definitive evidence of capital replacing human lab…

There’s a long lag between invention and any labour market effects from the mass adoption of technol…

As the opening chords of Country Calendar play, feel-good nostalgia for rural New Zealand washes ove…

Denmark is a lot like us. A small country and with an open economy and lots of fiords and sounds.

Technology is an irresistible force, emerging from inventors and relentlessly changing the nature of…

Necessity is the mother of invention if camping without tent pegs, according to Kinley Salmon in his…