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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 jmorris on Tuesday September 08 2015, @06:14AM
Though Bernie calls himself a "Socialist", he isn't.
(A Socialist wants Capitalism replaced--not just tweaked.)
Although if you want to play that No True Scotsman game the ChiComs aren't socialists either. And neither is the worst 'Social Democracies" of dying Europe. In reality Socialism always seems to devolve to a fascist grand bargain between big business, labor and government where all get what they want... until the system goes go Hell. See the world of today if you aren't clear on what the Hell looks like, starting in Greece.
and I haven't seen anyone in this thread mention worker cooperatives aka being your own boss--the logical alternative to being screwed over by Capitalists.
Actually, if you think you can do that, TRY IT. It is the capitalist way. Of course you must be willing to accept the other side of the Capitalist's bargain with society. If you succeed you reap the reward.... if you fail you don't get fired, you FAIL. No fair whining to big daddy government to step in and declare you too important to fail. In reality most workers do NOT have what it takes to be their own boss. Working in cubeville does suck though so there is certainly room for innovation in the continuum between corporate drone and self managing capitalist. Suspect the Internet can play a role disruptive role here and whoever figures it out will be another Gates, Bezos or Zuckerberg... and make millions happier.