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Positive Thinking: Keeping humans relevant at work

Keeping humans relevant at work

BBC Radio 4 - Positive Thinking, Keeping humans relevant at work

Is transferring power from bosses to employees the key to protecting jobs from automation?

Sangita Myska meets tech entrepreneur Charles Towers Clark who believes humans can only stay ahead of machines at work if bosses give away their power and upskill their staff.

Sangita Myska goes in search of the innovators with big solutions to some of our most intractable problems.

The World Economic Forum says the workforce is automating faster than expected, displacing a predicted 85 million jobs in the next five years. Tech entrepreneur Charles Towers Clark believes that taking power away from bosses and giving it to employees is the key to humans surviving in the workplace of the future. 

He did it in his own company and now he thinks all companies need to do it as a matter of urgency.

But is this the key to keeping humans relevant at work?

Contributors include:

Daniel Susskind, a Fellow in Economics at Oxford University and author of A World Without Work

Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School

Leena Nair, Chief Human Resources Officer and member of the Leadership Executive at Unilever

Producer: Ellie Bury

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Positive Thinking takes a deep dive into some of the biggest problems facing Britain today - and meets the people whose big ideas might solve them.

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