The Future Of Work Podcast With Jacob Morgan | Futurist | Workplace | Careers | Employee Experience & Engagement |

Feb 17, 2026: Today I break down five signals that are quietly reshaping work: OpenAI hiring the creator of OpenClaw—a major shift from chatbots that talk to agents that act Why "supervisors are disappearing," and how title inflation is quietly breaking the career ladder The AI productivity paradox (backed by new NBER research): adoption is real, impact is lagging Anthropic's push into "work tools" and the battle to own the workflow layer Australia's psychosocial safety rules—and why well-intentioned mandates can spiral into dependency, bureaucracy, and leadership abdication if we don't draw boundaries