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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.
(Score: 2) by penguinoid on Monday September 07 2015, @07:54AM
One life's lesson I've learned is that a lot depends on one's own attitude. If one constantly works around complaining, and feeling sorry for oneself, bemoaning how much of a victim they are, than that's exactly what they'll always be. A victim.
Similarly, I've noticed that when people go around bemoaning how everything hurts, that's just how they are -- in constant pain. I've tried helping them, telling them that those of us who don't complain about hurting are hardly ever in pain, but they just get mad at me for some reason, and won't even give it a try.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 07 2015, @08:04PM
telling them that those of us who don't complain about hurting are hardly ever in pain
Which often isn't actually true. Complaining about pain is not the same as experiencing pain. There's a lot to respect in a person who endures pain quietly so they don't burden their fellow humans.