The changing nature of work

Frances Coppola explores how increasing automation is fundamentally shifting the nature of work away from 'making stuff' towards personal services. One of the most interesting issues to arise in the course of the "comment-athon" on my post "The Golden Calf" was the suggestion that the link between money and work is broken, and indeed that there is no longer a reliable link between "earning" and working. This is a logical consequence of two things: firstly, increased automation of production means the number of people needed to produce enough goods to meet people's basic needs is declining; secondly, an increasing number of people do considerable amounts of pro bono" work that is directly beneficial to society. Of course, there has always been pro bono work. Middle-class women have also traditionally worked unpaid outside the home, as well, as have retired gentlemen. We also know that many middle-aged women have their paid work curtailed by the need to care for elderly relatives.

Viewpoint: Gartner on the changing nature of work 10 February 2012Last updated at 00:04 By Tom Austin Vice president, Gartner Hive mind: Working around the clock in hyper-connected 'swarms' - is this the future of work? As part of our Future of Work series running throughout February, we asked some experts to give us their take on how the way we work is going to change. Tom Austin, vice president at Gartner, has been a Gartner Fellow for a decade. If you were to sit down today and create a company completely from scratch, would you copy the processes, practices and structures of today's organisations, or would you try to do something different? Of course, I ask this knowing that the world of work has changed dramatically in the past 20 years. The changing nature of work means that organisations need to plan ahead for increasingly chaotic environments. There are 10 key ways in which the world of work is changing. The core value that people add does not lie in processes that can be automated. Spontaneity will trump reactivity.

Génération free-lance XEnvoyer cet article par e-mail Nouveau ! Pas le temps de lire cet article ? Classez le dans vos favoris en cliquant sur l’étoile. Fermer Management Bienvenue dans les nouveaux modes d’emplois, nomades et hybrides Imaginez un monde sans CDI, sans bureaux ni employeur attitrés. Quelle que soit la réponse, aux entreprises, désormais, d’inventer le management qui va avec. “ Ils sont mobiles, connectés, autonomes, réactifs. Perceptible depuis une dizaine d’années déjà, le changement s’affiche depuis peu dans les attentes des entreprises, dans l’évolution des comportements des salariés et jusque dans les préconisations de certains politiques ; à commencer par celles du président du Conseil italien Mario Monti qui, après avoir récemment qualifié le CDI “d’ennuyeux” pour les salariés et de “décourageant” pour les entreprises, exhortait les jeunes à “se faire à l’idée de ne pas avoir un emploi fixe à vie” et à la nécessité de “changer souvent de lieu ou de type de travail”. Réguler l’activité.

"If people are intrinsically of value, then they have the right to survive with or without working".... by noosquest May 14