Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI
Today is the day. Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI is officially available!
At a time when technology dominates the headlines, the conversation I see most often on LinkedIn is deeply human: what does AI mean for my job and my career?
And that makes sense. Careers once felt more predictable. Titles defined what you did. Progress looked like a ladder. That model has been evolving for years, but AI is accelerating the shift.
The most important truth about this moment is that the outcome isn’t written yet. The new world of work is being assembled right now, task by task, policy by policy, business by business. It will reflect the choices of the people who show up to build it.
That’s why Aneesh Raman and I wrote this book.
Open to Work is a practical guide informed by what we see across the global labor market and insight into the tools millions of people use every day. It’s for every person asking what comes next for their job, their career, their company or their community.
With help from experts and everyday LinkedIn members, it shows you how to engage with AI before you have to, how to adapt by focusing on what you can control and how to become irreplaceable by leaning into what makes you uniquely you.
And those ideas don’t just apply to individuals, they guide how we as Microsoft and LinkedIn are building for this moment. At the intersection of how work gets done and how careers get built, our shared goal is to connect people to opportunity and turn the tools they use every day into a canvas for human and AI collaboration at scale. Done right, that’s how AI expands opportunity and helps people build confidence and momentum in their careers.
We’ve always believed technology should serve people. AI should help humans. Not the other way around. That doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when we all decide to make it true.
If you want to go deeper on Open to Work, listen to my conversation with Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith on his Tools and Weapons podcast.
Open to Work is available now at linkedin.com/opentowork.
Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of LinkedIn and Executive Vice President of Microsoft Office, where he leads engineering for products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot. Through these roles, Ryan is shaping where work goes next to unleash greater economic opportunity for the global workforce.
