During this past Friday’s episode of Quality Digest Live, our weekly web TV show, QD editor in chief Dirk Dusharme and I covered stories about the gig economy and the skills gap and workforce shortages within manufacturing, especially as it relates to metrology, which is the science of measurement.

For the final segment of the show, as we are wont to do, we went “off-script” to further delve into these important topics and others that speak to people’s unique and fast-changing relationships to work. Our extended conversation also touched on apprenticeships, universal basic income, minimum wage increases, and the ability (or inability) for those in the middle class to earn comfortable retirements following their working lives. You can see the video here:

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