When I write about the future of work, people often cannot envision how hospitals, police, firemen, construction, nurses, plumbers, etc. can or will change. Those functions are still needed! However, the way full-time and part-time workers fills these roles is shifting rapidly.
Then, there is also the more technology can do what you do, the faster the change will be. Office work, knowledge work, repetitive tasks, and connecting with people is rapidly changing. How people engage with the world to make money is changing. A nurse may work part time and also have a portfolio income doing other work with the other hours in the week for making more money than nursing. That’s the world we live in now. The monopoly on people to do full-time jobs is beyond the gig economy to portfolio jobs (what one writer calls “polygamous” careers. In America, health insurance control by employers is still a control mechanism. I was born and lived in America most of my life. Then I married an Australian and have health care not tied to my job. What a better system!
Who thought taxi drivers or hotels could be impacted by technology? Who thought newspapers (content) could be replaced by platforms selling ads? We already see drones fighting high rise fires and technology doing law enforcement, taking your order at McDonalds, selling you goods online—all jobs humans did. Free your mind and ask, “How could technology do this?”
You might find it’s not as big a stretch as you thought.
When I write about the future of work, people often cannot envision how hospitals, police, firemen, construction, nurses, plumbers, etc. can or will change. Those functions are still needed! However, the way full-time and part-time workers fills these roles is shifting rapidly.
Then, there is also the more technology can do what you do, the faster the change will be. Office work, knowledge work, repetitive tasks, and connecting with people is rapidly changing. How people engage with the world to make money is changing. A nurse may work part time and also have a portfolio income doing other work with the other hours in the week for making more money than nursing. That’s the world we live in now. The monopoly on people to do full-time jobs is beyond the gig economy to portfolio jobs (what one writer calls “polygamous” careers. In America, health insurance control by employers is still a control mechanism. I was born and lived in America most of my life. Then I married an Australian and have health care not tied to my job. What a better system!
Who thought taxi drivers or hotels could be impacted by technology? Who thought newspapers (content) could be replaced by platforms selling ads? We already see drones fighting high rise fires and technology doing law enforcement, taking your order at McDonalds, selling you goods online—all jobs humans did. Free your mind and ask, “How could technology do this?”
You might find it’s not as big a stretch as you thought.