Thefutureofwork

Consider this…

Ten years ago there wereno social networks.

Ten years before that we didn't have the Web. 

If you work in the web programming, online marketing, or mobile phone industries…

your job did not exist

twenty years ago.

Who knows what jobs will existtwenty years from now?

The people out of work today will soon find jobs again.

The people out of work today will soon find jobs again.

FUTURE OF WORK?What is the

The future of work is…

TRANSPARENT

just take your word for it.No one is going to

In the past, productivity was di"cult (if not impossible) to measure.

Business wasted millions of dollars every year paying for employee downtime.

Now, time and task tracking tools are revolutionizing productivity measurement.

Each employee’s work can be directly tied to the bottom line.

The more productively you work, the more money you’ll make.

The future of work is…

FLAT

about their commute.No one is going to complain

In real estate the mantra is “Location. Location. Location.”

At work the mantra is“Communication. Communication.

Communication.”

considered a place.“Work” used to be

The only options for communication werelandline phones or snail mail.

Today, project teams use amazing web tools

anywhere in the world.to work together from

virtually free.long-distance calling Tools like Skype have made

The world is now flat.

The world is now flat.organization

Call centers used to be massive o"ces built in rural areas or countries like India.

In 2004 JetBlue started a revolution, allowing 700 customer service reps to work from home with no central o"ce.

In the future, location will not matter.

COMPETITIVEThe future of work is…

just for having a degree. No one is going to pay you

1990 2000 2007

29%

15.5%13.1%

The percentage of

Americans with a

college degree is

GROWING.

SOURCE

College is the new high school.

And informal education is more accessible than ever.

AcademicEarth.org postscourses online for FREEfrom top universities like Stanford & MIT.

There’s no longer an excuse not to know how.

to where you live.

Competition for jobs is no longer limited

It is commonplace to hire vendors and contractors from across the planet.

One in four organizations plans to increase spending on outsourcing by 25% or more this year.

SOURCE

According to interviews with more than 500 executives, the key benefit of outsourcing isn’t saving money…

...it’s innovation.

SOURCE

In some cases, your competition isn’t evenlimited to other individuals.

“Crowdsource”To split a task into smaller pieces and unleash

it to millions of people around the world.

Wikipedia’s 13 million articles are all written and maintained by the crowd.

Threadless™ finds t-shirt designs to sell from submission and voting by the crowd.

Consider ReCAPTCHA™

Multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books, but computers can’t always decipher the scanned text.

The first word verifies that you’re human. The second word is from a scanned book that a computercould not read.

ReCAPTCHA works by presenting people with two words to retype when they go to create a new account on a partner website.

Roughly 200 million ReCAPTCHA puzzles are solved each day. 

Each one takes about 10 seconds,but in total they amount to over150,000 hours of work every day.

To stay employed in the

workplace of the future

stand out. you need to

ON DEMANDThe future of work is…

guarantee you No one is going to

a lifetime career.

Many businesses are choosing contract relationships over hiring new employees.

The word “career”is as outdated as the word “typewriter”.

Project teams at work

are beginning to resemble

movie production teams.

Independent individuals with unique talents get together to work on a

company’s project.

At the end, they all go their separate ways. They might work together again in the

future. They might not.

“Virtual Teams”A group of individuals who work across time, space, and organizational boundaries using

collaboration technology.

In 2006, more than 28 million Americans worked in a virtual team at least one day per month.

SOURCE

By 2010, that number will grow to over 100 Million.

SOURCE

Although home is still the most common location, millions of virtual team members work from just about anywhere.

It’s a whole new paradigm.

So why should you consider this?

Because in the future of work…

Transparent Flat Competitive On Demand

more freedom and powerthan ever before.

Individuals will have

Your earning potential will be based on merit, not location.

Employers will have access toa larger and more skilled workforce.

YOUthe future of work is…

Because,

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