Empowering work - the changing nature of jobs
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July 22, 2016
SURVIVING THE IMPENDING GIGIFICATION OF YOUR JOB
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GIGIFICATION
What is gigification?
It’s the shift from hiring full-time employees to contract labor forces.
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GIGIFICATION
Uber/Lyft • Taskrabbit • Airbnb
Workers’ rights
Upwork • 99Designs • Tryburst
Crowdflower • Crowdsource • Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
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THE NATURE OF WORKIS CHANGING
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The workplace of the future is arriving now. Changes in technology, culture, and
economies are having an impact on the way people work at all
levels around the world.
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ADP: RESEARCH
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INTUIT 2020 REPORT
14. Work changes from full-time to Free Agent Employment Traditional employment will no longer be the
norm, replaced by contingent workers such as freelancers and part-time workers. The long-term trend of hiring contingent
workers will continue to accelerate with more than 90 percent of large corporations planning to substantially increase their use of a
flexible workforce.
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Shared, Collaborative and On-Demand: The New Digital Economy The sharing economy and on-demand services are weaving their way into the
lives of (some) Americans, raising difficult issues around jobs, regulation
and the potential emergence of a new digital divide.
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PEW RESEARCH CENTER
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HARVARD AND NBER
The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements The percentage of workers engaged in alternative work
arrangements – defined as temporary help agency workers, on-call workers, contract workers, and independent contractors or freelancers – rose from 10.1 percent in February 2005 to 15.8
percent in late 2015.
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EMPLOYMENT TRENDS Current trends could lead to a net
employment impact of more than 5.1 million jobs lost to disruptive labour market
changes over the period 2015–2020, with a total loss of 7.1 million jobs—two thirds of which are concentrated in routine white collar office functions, such as Office and
Administrative roles—and a total gain of 2 million jobs…
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUMRECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACTION
Recent discussions about the employment impact of disruptive change have often been polarized
between those who foresee limitless opportunities in newly emerging job categories and prospects that
improve workers’ productivity and liberate them from routine work, and those that foresee massive
labour substitution and displacement of jobs.
Both are possible.
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACTION It is our actions today that will determine whether we head towards massive displacement of workers
or the emergence of new opportunities.
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QUESTIONS
How will companies manage relationship, incentives, and IP with this new contract force?
How will companies navigate a shift of power to the employee, having to fight/bid for top talent?
What will you do when your expertise is no longer a full-time position at any company?
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