Freelancing future (Forbes article)
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- chrisRG
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hayd…
What Does Work Look Like When Half of Americans Are Not In A Job?
George Bradt‘s article, here on Forbes, describing the top three questions employers ask, proved to be very popular (at 1.5 million views). But it got me thinking in a different direction.
During the same week, a Time magazine blogger pointed out that the majority of workers will be free agents by 2020 (that data comes from consultants MBO who presented it at the Dec 2011 GigaOm NetWork Conference).
Why Is Creativity More Important Than Capitalism?
70 million people will not be in a job (up from around 40 million today) by 2020. Going freelance will be the dominant experience.
Within 8 years our employers might employ us for only a week or a month.
- GeorgesII0
Fact: Human beings love to predict the future.
Fact: Human beings are not very good at predicting the future.
Fact: Because the incentives to predict are quite imperfect — bad predictions are rarely punished — this situation is unlikely to change.But wouldn’t it be nice if it did?
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http://www.freakonomics.com/2011…
- maikel0
Is this just an ammmeeeeericannn thing or does it have any relevance to the rest of the world?
- ukit20
In the future everyone will work at Starbucks with a Macbook Air
Buy stock in Starbucks NOW
- vaxorcist0
no... I think we'll have 3 types of workers....
1. freelancers like us
2. protected class professionals, like doctor, lawyers
3. fast food workers- and fuckn dog pig monstersGeorgesII
- I think we could put the dog-pig monster in position 2a. Subclass to the protected class.WrappedInBooks
- MSTRPLN0
Will this be before or after the robots enslave us?