organizations

In our personal lives we play many roles. We look after our homes, we make time for friends, we play sports, have hobbies, play some sort of family role, and much more. In other words we aren’t just one thing or one type of person. Unfortunately, many of our organizations are structured in a way that only allows employees to have one type of role and one type of function. Whether you are in marketing, sales, R&D, IT, or other function, oftentimes you get pigeonholed and tend to get stuck doing the same tasks for the same team. Over time employees get bored or burned out. This is not how humans are wired, in fact this is the perfect scenario for a robot! It’s also important to keep in mind that the employee-employer relationship has fundamentally changed. Pensions are virtually non-existent, tenure for employees it not what it used to be, technology makes it easy to poach employees, the overall war for talent is rather brutal, and talent professionals have to consider the freelancer economy. […]