The Future of the Office, with a New Afterword by the Author

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and since 2007, is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore.

Cappelli’s recent research examines changes in employment relations in the United States and their implications. Cappelli writes a monthly column on workforce issues for Human Resource Executive Online and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. His books include Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies (with Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, and Neng Liang); Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It; The India Way: How India’s Business Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management (with Harbir Singh, Jitendra Singh, and Michael Useem); and Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order (with Bill Novelli). The Future of the Office was named a best business book for 2021 by Toronto’s Globe and Mail. His latest book is Our Least Important Asset: How the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting Hurts Employees and Business.

Cappelli was recently named by HR Magazine as one of the top 5 most influential management thinkers and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He received the 2009 PRO award from the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters for contributions to human resources, the 2022 Michael Losey Award from the Society for Human Resource Management for excellence in research, and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Liege in Brussels. He served on the Global Agenda Council on Employment for the World Economic Forum and a number of advisory boards.

Cappelli has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution; a German Marshall Fund Fellow; and a faculty member at MIT, the University of Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley.