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When Your Colleague Is a Machine
The workplace after digital workers arrive
Software-based colleagues are already on teams, taking ownership of real workflows. These pieces look at what that does to the humans around them: the skills needed to work alongside them, what happens to the entry-level work they absorb, and why empathy gets more valuable as the office gets more automated.
01 Feb 2026
When your new colleague is not human
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08 Feb 2026
Working with digital employees
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22 Feb 2026
Empathy in the age of digital employees
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14 Jun 2026
The year everyone became a manager
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05 Jul 2026
The disappearing bottom rung
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