How AI could kill ‘corporate ick’

The useful part

Imagine a workplace where you spend less time attached to a keyboard, worrying about how to word an email, write a report, craft a LinkedIn post, polish a presentation deck, or sound professional enough in an office-wide memo. Instead, you stop hunching over a keyboard and start talking your way through a written correspondence, the way you might with another person. Such a workplace may not be as far off as you imagine, according to Calum MacDougall, president of the enterprise division at audio equipment brand Jabra.

How it works

• "Which is by voice." Less corporate speak, more creativity MacDougall argues that AI could make work more conversational, and that, in turn, could promote creativity.
• Grant was president—and it's probably the only thing invented in 1868 that you still have in your office right now," MacDougall tells Fast Company.
• He believes "the future will be here quicker than we think." "The way that you will want to communicate with your [AI] agents will be increasingly in the way that you communicate with your human...

Details worth keeping

Whether office culture actually keeps pace, though, is another question. "The keyboard was invented in 1868, when Ulysses S.