Why the future of work will look like a video game

There’s no question that the past year saw an unprecedented level of digital transformation, perhaps the fastest change in how we work and where we work in history. As revolutionary as this shift appears, the future of work is still coming at us at a fast clip.

Many critics of the distributed workforce bemoan the lack of interaction, creativity, and cohesion they experience while working from home. That’s in part because, as helpful as many of our digital tools are, people are tooled for individual productivity more than they are for collective work. And with an army of disjointed tools each designed for a different task, the workday can feel like navigating a maze with no way out.