For the past year, we’ve been speaking with workers across the continent whose jobs did not exist a generation ago to learn more about our new era of work — and what it means for our future. The result is Shifts, a new newsletter from Post Opinions, which you can sign up for here.
Opinion These jobs didn’t exist a generation ago. What can they tell us about the future?
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Over four weeks, you’ll hear from eight workers, in their own words, in comics illustrated by the artist Maya Scarpa. You’ll see them at their desks and in the field, as they adapt to new technologies that are transforming the ways we interact with and care for one another.
You’ll meet people whose labor often goes unseen: the physical therapist who uses robots to help her patients gain mobility; the content moderator who watches hours of gruesome footage so we can safely scroll our social feeds; the climate adaptation designer who is rebuilding the world under our feet. You might already be familiar with some of these jobs. Others you might not have known existed — but you have undoubtedly seen or felt the impacts of their work.
Each of their experiences offers insight into the future of work — and how we get there. Maybe yours does, too? Tell us about it.
