Hasiba Haq, Associate Producer at TED (photo courtesy of TED)
Hasiba Haq, Associate Producer at TED (photo courtesy of TED)

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Talking with TED about the future of work—even if that just means tomorrow

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Published on February 10, 2020

Let’s get one thing out of the way: this isn’t a TED Talk.

Angela Cheng, Creative Director at TED (photo courtesy of TED)
Angela Cheng, Creative Director at TED (photo courtesy of TED)

“We’re trying to capture all the incredible ideas out there,” Cheng says. “Our goal is to be an antidote to all the bad news that's going on. The world can be a hard place—but we're also trying to help people remember that there's a lot of good going on. And that it can trickle down to you. We're just trying to make change all the time.”

 

TED’s original content covers a sprawling range of topics—from tackling the beast of a challenge that is climate change, to addressing FOBO (fear of a better option), a video episode playful in tone but at its core a topic of mental health.
 

And so, to the extent this is remotely a TED Talk—which it isn’t—we’ll focus on a common interest between TED and Dropbox, and one that led TED to become a Dropbox customer: the state and direction of modern work.

 

We partnered with Cheng and Haq’s team to create the video series The Way We Work, which covers a variety of work-related topics like the benefits of a distributed team, nuances of workplace romance, and yes, FOBO.

"Productivity is going to have a new definition, skewing towards ideas rather than goods.” —Angela Cheng, Creative Director at TED

Cheng and Nicaila Matthews Okome on set for The Way We Work (photo courtesy of TED)
Cheng and Nicaila Matthews Okome on set for The Way We Work (photo courtesy of TED)