I4j Innovation for Jobs

12/21/2019

In "Disrupting Unemployment," i4j co-authors call on entrepreneurs of the world to put people at the core of how we innovate.

03/08/2017

03/04/2017

The annual “Innovation for Jobs” (I4J) conference was held yesterday (March 2nd 2017) at SRI in Menlo Park. It is a highly productive, engaging meeting. Only short “lightning” talks are given. Throughout, multidisciplinary groups are formed to first discuss and then share ideas.

Innovation for Jobs: I4J According to Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup, "The American workforce has more than 100 million full-time employees. One-third of those employees are ... engaged at work. They l...

12/15/2016

09/22/2016

How to Protect Workers From Job-Stealing Robots - Jason Furman

President Obama’s chief economist argues that, with the right policies, artificial intelligence can be boon to the labor market, not a threat.

04/29/2016

What is your inner gift?

Soul Discovery

03/25/2016

The Gig Economy: Innovation for Jobs’ is a series by i4j (Innovation for Jobs) and exploring perspectives on important topics that will impact the future of work, jobs and employment. http://i4j.info/2016/03/the-gig-economy/

‘New Narratives: Innovation for Jobs’ is a series by i4j (Innovation for Jobs) and the GPA exploring perspectives on important topics that will impact the fu...

03/12/2016

Proud to announce the publication of a major new book on Disrupting Unemployment including chapters by David Nordfors, Vint Cerf, Geoffrey Moore, Steve Jurvetson, Joichi Ito, Esther Wojcicki, Monique Morrow and Philip Auerswald http://www.amazon.com/Disrupting-Unemployment-David-Nordfors/dp/152384583X

The sinister notion that machines will someday kill all jobs has been around for at least 200 years. Yes, machines can replace people at work or change the work that is needed, and they always have. At the same time, the labor force participation in the world has remained quite stable for many ge...

03/11/2016

Innovation For Jobs Summit Shapes The Future Of Work by Brian Rashid https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovation-jobs-summit-shapes-future-work-brian-rashid

They say you are the average of the five people you spend most of your time with. I believe this is true. I live in Silicon Valley, where everyone is obsessed with scalability. So, I wanted to scale