Which of the 4 Worlds of Work of 2030 Would You Prefer for the Future?

Nicole Hilbig
9 min readDec 29, 2021

Are you prepared with the skills needed in 2030?

Are you afraid or curious about what the future of work holds in store? What will the future of work look like? Which skills and professions will be relevant in the future? And will all professions soon be taken over by AI and automation, so that the “era of leisure” begins?

Lots of questions and hopes as well as fears that let shape some ideas and concepts of the future and look for answers.

In 2007 PwC made a survey of 10,000 people living in China, India, UK, Germany and the US. These insights showed how people think the future workplace will develop and how this would affect their employment prospects and work lives.

10 years later they summarized these prospects into a global study where four possible working worlds were created, which divides the possible future of the working world into four different scenarios. The red, blue, green and yellow world of work. Depending on the world, different requirements and challenges emerge, so that the goals of the workers with a view to the world of work ultimately produce different possibilities and results.

Which one would you choose? Which one would be most suitable for you and best meet your wishes?

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Nicole Hilbig

I love learning and writing about the changes in our digital era. My topics are future, work, productivity, writing, education & personal stories.