There are many writings and theories about work and the future of work. This is a topic of conversation in many circles because technology has become smarter and faster leading to the automation of things that have not been automated before. Some of these thinkers believe that there will be a workless future for humans as robots will do everything. As much as many of these theories sound like a science fiction story, they are important conversation for those of us in the workforce development business. We are all about people and how they work. Thinking about human evolution and the development of societies and culture, one imagines that our more primitive ancestors learned new tasks by “accidentally” trying to do something and discovering if the task was productive or not. These experiments were work. I always believe that people will work. The jobs that people do will change, but people will work. One reason is that people have evolved to do someth...