The Future of Work in the Age of Social Network

Ten years ago there were no social networks. Ten years before that we didnt have the Web. If you work in the web programming, online marketing, or mobile phone industries your job did not exist twenty years ago The future of work is…TRANSPARENT. In the past, productivity was difficult (if not impossible) to measure.

Consider this…

Ten years ago there were

no 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…

Who knows what jobs will exist

twenty 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 difficult

(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 were

landline 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.

organization

Call centers used to be massive offices 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 office.

In the future,

location will not matter.

The future of work is…

just for having a degree. 

No one is going to pay you

College is the new high school.

And informal education is

more accessible than ever.

AcademicEarth.org posts courses online for FREE

from 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 even

limited to other individuals.

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 computer

could 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. 

SOURCE

Each one takes about 10 seconds,but in total they amount to over

150,000 hours

of work every day.

To stay employed in the

workplace of the future

stand out you need to

ON DEMAND

The 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 power

than ever before.

Individuals will have

Your earning potential

will be based on merit, not location.

Employers will have access to

a larger and more skilled workforce.

the future of work is… Because,

Changing How the World Works.

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