The Future of Work Project

The Future of Work in California is part of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s far-reaching multimedia research project that portrays the human story of the automation revolution.

The project combines the Lab’s data and research insights with human-centered storytelling to explore how digitization will impact occupations across various sectors, industries, and walks of life in America.

Applying our research to the jobs landscape in California is just the beginning. Our goal is to help everyone—from workers and employers to policymakers and educators—understand and predict the changes occurring across occupations and anticipate future shifts in the workforce landscape.

Contact us to learn more about the project.

 

Project collaborators

 
 

California100

California 100 is a transformative statewide initiative focused on inspiring a vision and strategy for California’s next century that is innovative, sustainable, and equitable. The initiative is incubated at the University of California and Stanford, and is guided by an expert and intergenerational Commission.

 

Stanford Digital Economy Lab

One of the grand challenges of our time is the reinvention of our economy and society to keep up with AI and the acceleration of technology. The mission of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab is to advance our collective understanding of the digital economy so that we can build a tech-driven economy that benefits everyone. The Lab is part of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and co-sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).

 

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) is Stanford University’s home for understanding the economic challenges, opportunities, and policies affecting people in the United States and around the world. The Institute’s mission is to catalyze and promote evidence-based knowledge about pressing economic issues, leading to better-informed policy solutions for generations to come. SIEPR envisions a future where policies are underpinned by sound economic principles and generate measurable improvements in the lives of all people.

Contributors

  • Erik Brynjolfsson

    DIRECTOR, STANFORD DIGITAL ECONOMY LAB

    THE JERRY YANG AND AKIKO YAMAZAKI PROFESSOR, STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN-CENTERED AI

  • Mark Duggan

    THE TRIONE DIRECTOR, STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH

    THE WAYNE AND JODI COOPERMAN PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, STANFORD DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

  • Dan Sholler

    PROJECT SCIENTIST, TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

  • Christie Ko

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, STANFORD DIGITAL ECONOMY LAB

  • Acknowledgments

    The Economic Mobility, Workforce, and Inequality authorship team is grateful to Sara H. Bana, Kaushik Narasimhan, Daniel Rock, and Susan Young for contributing feedback and input at various stages of research and writing that contributed to this report.

The fine print

The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the information presented herein. This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the University of California in the interest of information exchange. The University of California assumes no liability for the contents or use thereof. Nor does the content necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the State of California. This report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation.