Automation is a hot topic nowadays. The theme of automation seems to be everywhere. While there are some people who feel that automation is a good thing, there are also quite a few people who feel that automation is a scary thing because it could mean that there will be less jobs for humans. In my opinion, we can rest easy at this point in time. […]
I have been getting a lot of questions about Glassdoor, a website where you can search for a company and find all of the essential information about it without having to talk to someone from the company in person. When searching a company on Glassdoor you can find salary information, details about the corporate culture, how employees feel about working there, and much more. […]
When asked for an operational definition of a Gig worker or a Freelancer compared to entrepreneurs who start consultancies, I really do not have an answer. The fact is, there are many different ideas and opinions about what Gig workers are or what they do. To prove my point, just look at how many different names and titles there are for these types of workers. You have freelancers, gig workers, entrepreneurs, consultants, contract workers, independent workers, and so on. […]
In 10 years’ time will a majority of us earn most of our income from Freelance employment or traditional Full Time employment? That is a question I asked on Twitter and the responses revealed that 75%-80% of the people polled believed that in 10 years Freelance or Gig work will account for a majority of the income for most of us. […]
Every time the conversation starts on the future of work, the focus seems to be on jobs. People want to know where the job market will be in the future, if there will be more or less jobs, and what is the technological impact on employment today. […]
Purpose is the number one topic regarding corporate culture inside of an organization. There has been many debates on where the purpose inside our organizations comes from. Should the organization be responsible for creating purpose for their employees, or should employees just show up to work with it already driving them? For example, Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, believes that people do not have to choose their dream job, but they can choose any job and create a sense of purpose themselves. Other camps believe that a person should wait for that dream job, where the organization is responsible for creating the sense of purpose for the employee. […]
Today a lot of companies rely on third party firms for research to make business decisions. They rely on various firms to give them data that is sometimes relevant and sometimes it’s not. Which is why I believe companies will begin doing their own research for the data they need for various issues. […]
Is your organization using it? What exactly is activity based working? Activity based work is work that is focused on the activity that you are doing. What does that mean, well we work in many ways and usually in a couple of environments. On average we can perform up to 21 different activities on any given work day and many of us are performing these tasks within a cubical or open floor plan. So we are working in one designed workspace to perform 21 different activities which doesn’t make much sense. Activity based working is where the focus is on the activity you are trying to complete. In other words, you work within a space designed for a particular activity and only that one activity. So you would have a different space to hold conferences, another space to collaborate with co-workers, another space for quiet contemplation and so forth. […]
In today’s day and age with many of us being “Flexible Workers” it is very easy to become exhausted or overwhelmed with notifications from social media and email. We are all using technology as much as possible and it can keep us from actually being productive! It is hard to imagine that this is even possible but if you don’t put fail-safes in place you will find yourself exhausted by the end of the business day and then realize you have not actually gotten any real work done. […]
To educate and train or not to educate and train, this is NOT a new question but a tricky one for employers today. The historic perspective has been concerned with the cost of educating and training employees along with the tenure of those employees that companies have invested time and money in. Then what to do if they don’t invest time and money in employees and those employees then stay with the company. Everyone can agree you have to educate and train employees it is a necessity for a successful company. […]
