Work3 in 2026
What’s coming, what’s changing, and what we’re building for you
A note from Andy and Matteo
If you’ve been reading Work3 for a while, you know we don’t do many housekeeping posts. We’d rather send you something worth thinking about than fill your inbox with announcements.
But this one is different. Because what we’re about to share isn’t really about us - it’s about what we want to build with you this year.
So here it is: the full picture of what Work3 will be for the rest of 2026.
Why now, and why this matters
Work3 started as a place to think clearly about work: not the LinkedIn-motivation version, not the techno-utopian version, but the real, complicated, sometimes uncomfortable version (with a touch of humor, and human perspective).
What happens to people when their organizations change faster than they can adapt?
What AI is actually doing to jobs, power, and meaning, not in five years, but now?
That hasn’t changed and if anything, we are trying to sharpen these questions.
We’ve spent the last few months honestly assessing where we are: 30,000 of you read Work3 every week. For us, this is both exciting and humbling.
What hasn’t kept pace is the structure around the content, publishing cadence and structure has sometimes been inconsistent and our paid and community offer has been vague. There’s been no clear signal of where Work3 is going next.
That’s what we want to change now.
What you can expect, and when
Starting in June, Work3 publishes on a more reliable schedule.
Here’s exactly what that looks like:
Three original essays per month. These are the core of what we do: long-form, researched, argument-driven pieces on the themes that matter most right now. They won’t be rushed, and they won’t be filler. Each one will have a clear aim and earn its place in your inbox. We will also be differentiating them further, with an editorial calendar and structure that we outline below.
Work3 Monthly Round-Up. A curated, opinionated look at what happened in work, AI, and organizational life that month. Not a link farm, our actual views on what it means and a way for you to be always up to speed on what's happening.
One monthly Work3 Community Brains Trust. A live conversation with members of the Work3 community. We get leaders from different industries and parts of the world chiming in on what we write about, trends, real case studies and experiences. This is the human part of our work, that we started in 2025 but will be running with an improved format, schedule, to make it not just useful, but also actionable.
Quarterly deep-dives. Every three months we’ll publish a substantial research report - 20 to 30 pages - on a single theme. The first one, launching in June, is a PDF Report on “Nine Global Mega Trends Shaping the Future of Work”.
We did this in 2025, but we are relaunching in 2026 with updated trends, developments and insights. If you’ve wanted a document you can actually use in a strategy conversation or share with a leadership team, this is it.
What we’re going to write about
Today, everyone has an opinion on the ‘future of work’.
However the term is about as meaningful as the ‘future of weather’ - your prospects very much depend on where you are.
We don’t aim to predict the future, we want to a build a better one.
We plan to share our research on how people are building a preferable future for specific areas, skills, and, industries.
Work3 is about the redesign of work as a system, not the inspirational layer on top, but the operating system underneath: how work gets organized, who holds power, what technology is actually doing to the firm, the job, the career, and the person doing the work.
This year we’re writing across five connected territories:
Work as a system. The unbundling of the firm, Agentic AI as a new operating model, What replaces the manager, the job description, and the org chart as the primary units of coordination.
Work as a human experience. Trust inside organizations. The emotional economy. What it feels like to work when the tools around you are changing faster than the culture.
Careers and skills. How to build something durable when ladders disappear, credentials erode, and the definition of “good at your job” shifts every eighteen months.
Work and society. The policy layer. The demographic layer. What breaks when work systems change faster than institutions can adapt. A little Toffler, a little Luddism, a little of what science fiction got right.
Industries in transition. How specific sectors are reshaping before the labour market catches up — because industry precedes work, and work precedes policy.
Each month will be anchored to one of these territories. You’ll always know what kind of conversation we’re in.
New membership plans: what’s changing
We’ve redesigned the paid offer from scratch, because the old one wasn’t clear about what we were giving you.
Here’s how it works now:
Free - You will continue to read one of the original essays per month, plus the new Work3 Monthly Round-Up. If you never pay us a penny to support us, we still want you to keep reading!
Futurist - $8/month or $80/year. This is for readers who want all of our content. You get all three original essays, the Work3 Monthly Round-Up, invitations to the monthly Work3 Brains Trust live discussion, and a Work3 community chat later this year. You will also get early access to two tools we’re building: the WorkForce3 dashboard (a live signal tracker of AI displacement and labour market shifts by sector) and the Work3 GPT, which lets you search and converse with everything we’ve ever published. Pay annually and you get a discount of wo months free. Plus the exclusive PDF Report on “Nine Global Mega Trends Shaping the Future of Work”, and future quarterly reports.
Founding Member - $250/year, limited to 100 people. This is for the people who want to shape what Work3 becomes with us. Everything in Futurist, plus access to 1:1 with Andy and Matteo, direct input on our editorial and product roadmap, and beta access to every new tool we build before it goes public.
If you’re currently a paid subscriber on the old plan, nothing changes for you automatically - we’ll be in touch personally. We appreciate so much your early support, that we will be moving you all to the founding member plan. Our goal for you is to live up to our promise and really pay back your initial support as we launched last year as everything wasn’t 100% clear.
If you’re ready, please use this button to subscribe/upgrade!
One last thing we’re asking of you
We’re sending out a short survey to the full Work3 community shortly. It takes two minutes. It will help us understand who you are, what you want more of, and whether the new membership structure makes sense for you.
There’s also a free gift attached - if you complete the survey, you’ll get 2 months of membership on the Futurist paid plan.
We’ve been building this thing for a few years now, mostly by instinct. This year we want to build it with more information. You are, after all, the reason it exists.
New here? Start with these reader favourites
If you’re still deciding whether Work3 is for you, here are a few of the essays that have shaped the conversation so far.
Death of Entry Level Jobs - Are we building a world of work with no way for beginners to begin?
The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock🦚 - Why return-to-office mandates may be less about productivity - and more about power, status and old habits refusing to die.
The Decentralised Workforce - How freelancers, creators and one-person empires are reshaping work, wealth and the future of the firm.
The Global Mega Trends Shaping the Future of Work - A big-picture guide to the forces unbundling jobs, organisations, careers and the social contract.
Future of Jobs Report 2025 - What the World Economic Forum’s latest jobs forecast gets right - and where leaders should read it with caution.
AI-geism - Will AI help older workers stay relevant - or become another excuse to write them off?
If you've made it here - you're a champion of attention and a true fan! Again, thanks for your support, engagement and feedback so far. We are humbled and honored, and will be pushing to make Work3 more useful every day.
Any comments or questions then let us know.
Matteo and Andy