Future of Work | PBS

Once there were claims that as technology and automation relieved the burden of labour, the working week would shrink and allow humans to lead more fulfilling lives. Yet those predictions now seem naive in their optimism.

Three-part series FUTURE OF WORK examines the ongoing upheavals in the workplace, and the immense social fallout from these changes. Can a job - that essential element of the American Dream - still be guaranteed in a world where Artificial Intelligence and robotics increasingly offer employers a non-human alternative?

How would a vastly expanded ‘leisure class’ fund itself? And with the pandemic accelerating this paradigm shift, is it time for a radical rethink of everything from the ‘working week’ to training, education and social safety nets?