Digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and robotics, are often said to create dramatic transformation of our work, skills and ways of learning on the job. Some macro-economic scenarios predict, for example, that within two decades digitalization will lead to 46% of occupations becoming obsolete; with creative jobs being least susceptible to automation. In this talk, I will discuss these technological developments, their consequences for skill acquisition and provide an alternative perspective to such common macro-economic views. Based on several ethnographic cases, I will show how and why many current scenarios of digitalization differ from everyday organizational realities. I will thereby debunk common misconceptions around what consequences digitization holds for learning at work and discuss how such grounded ethnographies can help in designing the workplace learning of the future.