#future-workforce

#future-workforce

Nearly a third of skilled knowledge workers are already making money without being tied to an employer or waiting for the next paycheck. About 28% of knowledge workers are currently freelancing, per Upwork's 2025 Future Workforce Index.

Adam Dorr predicts that robots and artificial intelligence will dominate the global economy within a generation, potentially replacing virtually all human labor by 2045. He likens the coming transformation to past technological shifts, asserting that whatever tasks currently performed by humans will soon be done better and cheaper by machines.