Sarah O’Connor is a columnist,reporter and associate editor at the Financial Times.

David talks to author and journalist Sarah O’Connor, who writes about the changing character of work for the Financial Times, to explore what is happening to the world of jobs and employment in the…

Boundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture

A tsunami of change, we are told, is sweeping the economy as robots and AI threaten to take over tasks done by humans. But while we worry that we’re robotizing our work, what if the real risk is that ...

A reporter documents the good, the bad and the ugly of AI in the workplace

29: July 2026

Metrics for dangerous success and dangerous failure should be interpreted differently

Once upon a time the world of work was a full-time beat at newspapers.

Sarah O’Connor’s We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work accompanied me on my summer holiday, but it has continued to unsettle how I think about work. It is an engaging, accessible bo…

When the Luddites smashed factory frames in a bid to defend their craft and livelihoods, the machines came out on top. Today, AI and automation threaten to wipe out skilled jobs and flood us w…

We would do well to reconsider the prospect of Artificial Intelligence replacing people while degrading work and care

Sarah O’Connor’s examination of technological change is an engrossing discourse on power, politics and humanity