I came across this The Wall Street Journal article asking a big question: how will work change over the next 20 years?
The direction feels clear. Work is shifting toward systems designed for adaptability, learning and judgment in uncertain environments.
A few signals stand out:
🔹AI reshapes how performance is understood, focusing more on outcomes, collaboration patterns and working rhythms.
🔹Demographic pressure pushes companies to treat work as a learning system, where capability development matters more than scale.
🔹Human–AI collaboration becomes normal, increasing the value of decision quality, context and emotional intelligence.
🔹Flatter structures favour generalists who connect ideas and move across boundaries.
The organisations that thrive will be those that design work around learning, judgment and value creation, not stability alone.