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Interview Of The Week: Carl Benedikt Frey, Oxford Martin School

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Article Summary:

Who: Carl Benedikt Frey is Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at Oxford University and directs the program on the Future of Work at the Oxford Martin School. He has served as an advisor and consultant to international organizations, think tanks, government and business, including the G20, the OECD, the European Commission, the United Nations, and several Fortune 500 companies. His most recent book, The Technology Trap, was selected a Financial Times Best Books of the Year in 2019.

Topic: The future of work and why on-site teams do a better job at innovating then distributed teams.

Quote: “There are benefits of remote work for productivity but the trade-off of being productive might be not making an important discovery in future. You are much more likely to make a new discovery if you are part of an on-site team.”

About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.