Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work | Employee Experience

Collaboration

Collaboration, Technology

Technology and Collaboration: A Vital Pair for the Future of Work

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Between cloud services, video calling, internal social networks, and so much more, collaboration plays a huge role in modern workspaces. At the heart of collaboration is the technology that makes it possible. And for every type of collaboration software, there are multiple vendors and services offering various features and systems. Collaboration, while vital to the future of work, can also be overwhelming. But just as each organization has its own business plan and internal processes, so too does it need to have collaboration tools that meet its needs. […]

Innovation

Is it Time to Say Goodbye to Email?

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Your email inbox might seem crowded, but consider this: There are more than 1 billion business email accounts around the world, with an estimated 100-plus billion work-related emails sent every day.
With such prevalent use, email is a ubiquitous part of office and work life. So why are so many people questioning its value and asking what the future holds for email? As the workplace environment evolves, especially with new technology arriving almost daily, it makes sense that email would get the brunt of the change. But is email going to die? Not quite. As it stands, the future of email falls into three categories: remove, maintain, or change. […]

The Future in 5

The Top 3 Tips To Create A Connected Company

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Neeru Arora, the Chief Information Officer and Chief Knowledge Officer for Aon, recently joined me at the Future of Work Forum in Chicago. Aon is a prominent professional services firm that serves many top Forture 500 companies. They are the leading provider of risk management, insurance, human resource solutions, and more! Aon advises their clients on a daily basis around topics such as retirement, talent, capital, and analytics. It is a very culturally diverse organization with 72,000 colleagues in 120 countries. They strive to create a connected company for a better experience, for employees and clients! […]

The Future in 5

Should You Have To Work 40 Hours A Week?

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Why are we so fixated on a 40 hour work week? Do we need to work that much? There is shift from focusing on the input that is required to the outputs that are created, and rightly so! We now have technology that allows us to work anywhere, at any time. Just because a manager doesn’t see an employee logging time doesn’t mean they aren’t earning their salary. Tracking hours is becoming an archaic idea in the world that we live in. Instead, organizations should focus on good quality and punctual work from employees that collaborate and communicate. […]

The Future in 5

Should You Treat Your Employees And Freelancers Differently?

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In this episode of The Future in Five, I explore whether all team members should be treated equally or if it should depend on their employment status. While it is important to discern the difference between employees and freelancers for certain reasons such as data, all should be treated as key members of your team… no matter how infrequent or little their work. Do your employees and freelancers all have access to the same benefits and information?[…]

Future of work

Three Unconventional Ways To Get Ahead At Your Company

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As much as we keep hearing about the gig and freelancer economy, the reality is that most of still have full time jobs and at least for the foreseeable future this won’t change. This means that for most of us we still want to know how to succeed and thrive in the jobs and roles that we are in. However, most of the pieces of advice we hear about recommend things like making your manager look good, taking on extra work, trying to become friends with others, and the like. Instead, I want to propose a few non-conventional yet powerful approaches that employees can use to get ahead at work. […]

The Future in 5

Is Your Organization Leveraging The Collective Wisdom Of It’s People?

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In 1906, Sir Francis Galton was visiting a livestock fair, when he came across an interesting game. The fair goers were invited to guess an ox’s weight after it was slaughtered and dressed. Around 800 guesses were made. Sir Gulton, being intrigued by this game, he collected all of the guesses that were made, and analyzed them. He found that not one person had the correct guess, and the overall average guess was only one pound off from the real weight of this ox. This really shows how the collective intelligence from a large group of people is powerful. […]

Employee experience, The Future in 5

Why Your Physical Workspace Is Just As Important As Your Physical Appearance

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First impressions are important. When you meet someone for the first time appearance matters. If they show up disheveled and not “put together” then you get a very different vibe versus if they show up with their hair combed and a nice outfit versus if they show up in something casual. Each appearance gives you a different vibe. The same feelings happen when employees walk into a workspace. If an employee walks into an office and all the walls are stark, everyone is in cubicles, and people are dressed suites and ties then the vibe might be boring, not innovative, and very conservative. Now imagine walking into a different workspace with an open floor plan, touch screens on the walls, and workers buzzing about actively engaging with each other. This typically gives off a vibe that is more about innovation, collaboration, and engagement. […]

The Future in 5

Three Strategies For Closing The Generational Gap At Your Company

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When considering the generation gap that most organizations are seeing, we first have to remember that this is not the first time that we have had multiple generations in the workplace at a single given time. While it may be true that there are indeed some differences between generations, many studies on this topic find there are more similarities than differences. So what are some things organizations should do to close any generational differences that might exist? […]

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