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- 3. Ten years ago there were no social networks.
- 4. Ten years before that we didn't have the Web.
- 5. If you work in the web programming, online marketing, or mobile phone industries…
- 6. xist te no . d id ago ob ars r j ye ou t y y n tw e
- 7. Who knows what jobs will exist twenty years from now?
- 8. The people out of work today will soon find jobs again.
- 9. The people out of work today will soon find jobs again.
- 10. What is the FUTURE OF WORK?
- 11. The future of work is… TRANSPARENT
- 12. No one is going to just take your word for it.
- 13. In the past, productivity was di cult (if not impossible) to measure.
- 14. Business wasted millions of dollars every year paying for employee downtime.
- 15. Now, time and task tracking tools are revolutionizing productivity measurement.
- 16. Each employee’s work can be directly tied to the bottom line.
- 17. The more productively you work, the more money you’ll make.
- 18. The future of work is… FLAT
- 19. No one is going to complain about their commute.
- 20. In real estate the mantra is “Location. Location. Location.”
- 21. At work the mantra is “Communication. Communication. Communication.”
- 22. “Work” used to be considered a place.
- 23. The only options for communication were landline phones or snail mail.
- 24. Today, project teams use amazing web tools to work together from anywhere in the world.
- 25. Tools like Skype have made long-distance calling virtually free.
- 26. The world is now flat.
- 27. o rganization The world is now flat.
- 28. Call centers used to be massive o ces built in rural areas or countries like India.
- 29. In 2004 JetBlue started a revolution, allowing 700 customer service reps to work from home with no central o ce.
- 30. In the future, location will not matter.
- 31. The future of work is… COMPETITIVE
- 32. No one is going to pay you just for having a degree.
- 33. rcentage of The pe icans w it h a 29% Amer g e degree is co lle GROWING. 13.1% 15.5% 1990 2000 2007 SOURCE
- 34. College is the new high school.
- 35. And informal education is more accessible than ever.
- 36. AcademicEarth.org posts courses online for FREE from top universities like Stanford & MIT.
- 37. There’s no longer an excuse not to know how.
- 38. Competition for jobs is no longer limited to where you live.
- 39. It is commonplace to hire vendors and contractors from across the planet.
- 40. One in four organizations plans to increase spending on outsourcing by 25% or more this year. SOURCE
- 41. According to interviews with more than 500 executives, the key benefit of outsourcing isn’t saving money…
- 42. ...it’s innovation. SOURCE
- 43. In some cases, your competition isn’t even limited to other individuals.
- 44. “Crowdsource” To split a task into smaller pieces and unleash it to millions of people around the world.
- 45. Wikipedia’s 13 million articles are all written and maintained by the crowd.
- 46. Threadless™ finds t-shirt designs to sell from submission and voting by the crowd.
- 48. Multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books, but computers can’t always decipher the scanned text.
- 49. ReCAPTCHA works by presenting people with two words to retype when they go to create a new account The first word verifies on a partner website. that you’re human. The second word is from a scanned book that a computer could not read.
- 50. Roughly 200 million ReCAPTCHA puzzles are solved each day.
- 51. Each one takes about 10 seconds, but in total they amount to over 150,000 hours of work every day.
- 52. ployed in the To s tay em uture place of the f work yo u ne ed to s tand out.
- 53. The future of work is… ON DEMAND
- 54. No one is going to guarantee you a lifetime career.
- 55. Many businesses are choosing contract relationships over hiring new employees.
- 56. The word “career” is as outdated as the word “typewriter”.
- 57. ork le at w emb tea ms res s. ct oje nning t o am Pr gi ion te are be du ct vie pro mo
- 58. Independent individuals with unique talents get together to work on a company’s project.
- 59. At the end, they all go their separate ways. They might work together again in the future. They might not.
- 60. “Virtual Teams” A group of individuals who work across time, space, and organizational boundaries using collaboration technology.
- 61. In 2006, more than 28 million Americans worked in a virtual team at least one day per month. SOURCE
- 62. By 2010, that number will grow to over 100 Million. SOURCE
- 63. Although home is still the most common location, millions of virtual team members work from just about anywhere.
- 64. It’s a whole new paradigm.
- 65. So why should you consider this?
- 66. Because in the future of work… Transparent Flat Competitive On Demand
- 67. Individuals will have more freedom and power than ever before.
- 68. Your earning potential will be based on merit, not location.
- 69. Employers will have access to a larger and more skilled workforce.
- 70. Because, the future of work is… YOU
- 71. Changing How the World Works. www.oDesk.com
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