Spending hours typing away at emails, making sure the tone treads the right balance of not too blunt or too casual (or that you’ve not sent a single typo to a boss), could soon be a thing of the past; The London School of Economics has warned that the days of the keyboard are numbered.

The science specialist university, together with Jabra, studied how voice technology will impact the future of work, and the scientists predicted that by 2028, voice AI will become the default way of working.

In the next few years, the study says workers will be talking to their phones or laptops, instead of typing, thanks to the explosion of AI.

“By the time Gen Alpha enters the workforce, AI will be fully embedded, and their work will be spoken long before it’s ever typed,” Paul Sephton, global head of

See Full Page