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

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The Future in 5

Will Freelancers Take Over Full Time Employees?

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A popular topic of discussion around the freelancer economy is the idea of full time employment disappearing. In other words, is it realistic to think that in the near future everyone is going to be a freelancer and we won’t have any full time employees anymore? So what’s the answer? Neither I nor the companies I speak with see full time employment completely disappearing in the near future. In this episode of the #futurein5 I talk about this hybrid employment mode in more detail, tune in and let me know what you think!

Future of work, General Business, Leadership and Management, Strategy

The 5 Types Of Organizational Structures: Part 4, Flatarchies

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This is part four of a five part post that explores various types of organizational structures that either already exist in today’s business landscape or are starting to emerge as viable options for the future of work. Somewhere in between hierarchies and flat organizations lie flatarchies. These types of companies are a little bit of both structures. […]

General Business, Leadership and Management

The 5 Types Of Organizational Structures: Part 2, “Flatter” Organizations

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This is part two of a five part post that explores various types of organizational structures that either already exist in today’s business landscape or are starting to emerge as viable options for the future of work. Each post will explore one of these structures and then I’ll provide a final summary post on all five. These concepts and ideas are taken from my book, The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization. […]

The Future in 5

Why Do People Become Freelancers?

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Intuit projects that by 2020 40% of Americans will be freelancing, a study by the Freelancers Union found that 34% of the American workforce is already freelancing, and MBO Partners found that there are currently almost 18 million full-time independent workers today. Clearly something big is happening here and this trend of freelancing is only going to keep growing. In a previous video I talked about why organizations work with freelancers and today I wanted to explore why people become freelancers. […]

The Future in 5

What Is An Employee?

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Simple question, but how would you answer it? If you look up “employee” in the dictionary you find: “a person who works for another person or for a company for wages or a salary.” Synonyms include: cog, servant, and slave. This is how we have built our organizations, on this […]

General Business, Leadership and Management

The Highest Rated CEOs In 2015

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I’m a big fan of Glassdoor, the company that provides an amazing level of transparency into what it’s like to work at various organizations. You can get salary information, honest employee reviews, information on the corporate culture, and much more. Glassdoor also has an amazing amount of data and information on what makes a great place to work and what employees care about. Think of it a bit like Yelp for people searching for jobs. They also release their annual “best place to work award” which looks at employee review data to see which companies have the most highest rated employee reviews. Recently Glassdoor released their highest rated CEOs list for 2015 which I wanted to share with you here. […]

Future of work, The Future in 5

What’s The Purpose Of An Office And Do We Need Them?

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All the conversations related to the future of work these days seem to be pointing towards the end of offices. Yet we have organizations all over the world like Google, Apple, Samsung, Facebook, and many others who are investing countless dollars into creating new amazing office spaces. So if the future of work is all about not having an office, then why are so many companies investing in new office spaces? […]

Culture, Flexible work, Future of work

Working In The Year 2040

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The folks over at Johnson Controls have put together an interesting report called Smart Workplace 2040: The Rise of the Workspace Consumer. It’s a lengthy 84-page report that explores various scenarios for what the workplace might look like in 2040. Predicting anything 5-10 years in the future is tricky enough, but 25 years might as well just be a thought experiment. Still, it’s an interesting thing to explore. In the report, Johnson Controls clearly state that they are basing their predictions on a few assumptions. While the report is quite expansive, I wanted to highlight what they have identified as a series of complex model locations for where work will get done. […]

Culture, Future of work

Why The Future Of Work Is All About The Employee Experience

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Decades ago nobody cared about the employee experience because all of the power was in the hands of employers. However, over the past few years we have started to see the emergence of the employee experience, which is now something that many HR leaders and executives around the world are focusing on. Why? Because the power has now shifted into the hands of employees. […]

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