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There's been a lot of talk about the future of work. But what exactly is it? Although the future is tough to predict, especially at the speed with which we are all moving, there are some common elements that have started to emerge.

In CanadaWorks 2025, Deloitte's Human capital practice and the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) examine the fundamental drivers of change to help us safeguard a healthy and prosperous Canadian workplace in 2025.

The modern workplace is constantly evolving. The water cooler and the 9-to-5 grind are quickly becoming relics of the past; what is in store for the future? The Conversation has been running a series, the Future of Work, which looks at the way technology, globalisation, and demographic change are rapidly transforming the way we work in the 21st century.

Future of Work (FoW) Professor Lynda Gratton's Future of Work Consortium is acknowledged as one of the most innovative forums for exchanging academic and executive ideas, concerns and models, and has become the go-to source for those wishing to gain an in-depth understanding of future working practices.

As both political parties are reminding us right now, America is in an unemployment crisis. The latest sunny news: a new report says that even if you land a new job, it's likely to pay low wages.) Each week, we're bringing you true stories from the unemployed. "Just to be clear, the day before you graduate, you are the future of America. The day after, you're on your own." This is what's happening out there.

"If you're a good developer but you can't read and comment on a ticket, than we can't work with you," declares Brian Alvey, former cofounder of Weblogs, Inc. and the current head of Crowd Fusion, which makes content managements systems for a range of deep-pocketed clients.

At first, there seems a discrepancy: we hear incessant talk of low job growth and economic distress, but see people tapping expensive smartphones and buying the latest social-mobile app. Indeed, the technology and design industries seem unaffected by the recession, set to continue on the same course of planned obsolescence they've been on for decades. But a second look reveals that advances in these sectors are helping people adjust to life in a pared-down economy, in a world where the environment has become a main concern. Our recession isn't happening in a vacuum, and advances in design and technology, Read more: http://www.utne.com/science-technology/the-future-of-work.aspx#ixzz25PFuNAlN

Some 40 million workers across advanced economies are unemployed. With many nations still facing weak demand-and the risk of renewed recession-hiring has been restrained. Yet there are also long-range forces at play that will make it more difficult for advanced economies to return to pre-recession levels of employment in the years to come. As a result, we see that the current disequilibrium in many national labor markets will not be solved solely with measures that worked well in decades past. To help develop appropriate new responses, MGI examines five trends that are influencing employment levels and shaping how work is done and jobs are created:

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