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posted by n1 on Sunday September 06 2015, @12:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can-start-tomorrow...-and-finish-next-friday dept.

Over at the Harvard Business Review there's speculation that the paradigm of people working full-time for a single employer has outlived its usefulness:

Our vision is straightforward: most people will become independent contractors who have the flexibility to work part-time for several organizations at the same time, or do a series of short full-time gigs with different companies over the course of a year. Companies will maintain only a minimal full-time staff of executives, key managers, and professionals and bring in the rest of the required talent as needed in a targeted, flexible, and deliberate way.

There are two reasons such a flexible work system is now plausible. The first is societal values. Work-life balance and family-friendly scheduling are much more important to today's workers, and companies are increasingly willing to accommodate them. The second is technology. Advances in the last five years have greatly improved the ease with which people can work and collaborate remotely and companies and contract workers can find each other.

The opinion piece goes on to list how workers, employers and society in general will benefit from this shift. What seems to be missing is speculation on the down sides, both to employers and contractors. Originally spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by zugedneb on Sunday September 06 2015, @08:29PM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Sunday September 06 2015, @08:29PM (#233056)

    Those nations poured generations of work into where we are today. And, today, the corporations that grew out of our nation's hard work have stabbed us in the back.

    C'mon bro... what stabbed "us" in the back is the inability to organize and maintain some "rational" union.
    What stabbed in the back was the belief that capitalism just "provides", without there being need for gardening work, on the society amongst other things...

    Have you heard this one?
    "Help yourself, and then even God will help you?"

    Only when activists protested Walmart's purchasing practices did Walmart pretend to be concerned with worker's safety and working conditions.

    now observe:

    Only when activists protested

    AHA!
    goal, organisation, initiative -> achievement?
    But you already seem to know...

    the worship of the Almighty Dollar must go on, despite any unfortunate losses of human life.

    Than we have this, yes...
    I observed, however, that not consuming ends up as antisocial behaviour.
    Dressing in military cloth with military boots that last 10+ years is not gonna get you laid...
    I would almost say, that the moment we all have nice fuckable androids, and we do not have to invest in merchandise to impress the opposite sex (women), consumption will go down as well...

    Women have no reason to complain over work conditions... Men consume, 90% of the time, to impress them.
    They just have to decide not to be impressed by shiny shit...
    admitting -> informing -> adjusting -> profit!!11!!1

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