What COVID-19 taught us about the future of work

Patricia Reiners
5 min readSep 7, 2020

5 things that will change the way we work and life forever

I spend the last year exploring our future cities together with Adobe and focussed especially on the future of work and how new technologies might change the way we work and life.

Even before the pandemic, there were already a lot of discussions about the future of work. So, many companies used the last months as some kind of unplanned pilot project and announced now that employees can continue to work remotely but can still use the office space.

Covid-19 speeded things up and helped us to take one big step toward the future of work. It turned out many people are working from home productively and even being able to take care of kids and manage the work-life-balance somehow. People saving time because they don’t need to commute to work and street are incredibly empty during „rush hours“.

What does the future of work mean for us? While others are waiting that robots are taking over our jobs others are getting preparing for what’s ahead of us. So, let’s have a peek into the future and what’s coming:

1. Artificial Intelligence and automation

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Patricia Reiners

UX/UI Designer from Berlin and an Adobe Creative Resident 2019 ✨ I am passionate about future cities, technology and innovation.