Best of 2024: Future of Work

In 2024, expert guests joined the Gartner Talent Angle to discuss
the everchanging future of work. Professor and author Matt Beane
shares his insights on how learning and development (L&D)
leaders can play a strategic role in unlocking human ability in
the age of intelligent machines. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang unpacks
how the four-day work week can recharge the workforce, accelerate
performance and benefit organizations.


Matt Beane is an assistant professor in the technology management
program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Matt does
field research on work involving robots and AI to uncover
systematic positive exceptions that we use across the broader
world of work. He received his Ph.D. from the Sloan School of
Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the
information technologies department. Matt also took a two-year
hiatus from his doctoral studies to help found and fund Humatics,
an MIT-connected, full-stack IoT startup.


Alex Soojung-Kim Pang a leading voice in reduced hours working.
He is the author of three books exploring how companies and
individuals can better integrate rest, creativity, and focus into
digital-age lives and work. Before joining 4 Day Week Global,
Alex was a research director at the Institute for the Future and
senior consultant at Strategic Business Insights, and lectured at
Oxford University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. Alex
received a Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the
University of Pennsylvania.