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For the ChosunBiz Insight Forum on 'Smart World, Smart Work' Seoul, Korea, December 14, 2010

Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Finally, some statistics to prove the stereotypes right. According to a recent survey from Millennial Branding and Payscale, Millenials really are most likely to be employed in service industry jobs. So, all those jokes about post-graduation latte pouring and t-shirt folding haven't been in vain.

Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Finally, some statistics to prove the stereotypes right. According to a recent survey from Millennial Branding and Payscale, Millenials really are most likely to be employed in service industry jobs. So, all those jokes about post-graduation latte pouring and t-shirt folding haven't been in vain.

On Sunday, I learned that a "wantologist" -- what, you don't have one? -- is somebody paid to figure out what you want. Arlie Russell Hochschild, writing in the New York Times, quotes Katherine Ziegler, wantologist, helping a client to figure out what it is that she wants. The conversation went something like this:

"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.

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:

Awesome RSA animation on what motivates us - great stuff for futures of work

"There are therefore four logical combinations of the two oppositions, resource abundance vs. scarcity and egalitarianism vs. hierarchy. To put things in somewhat vulgar-Marxist terms, the first axis dictates the economic base of the post-capitalist future, while the second pertains to the socio-political superstructure. Two possible futures are socialisms (only one of which I will actually call by that name) while the other two are contrasting flavors of barbarism."

Monash (see slide deck)

Business models will change dramatically Technology, globalisation, demographics and other factors will influence organisational structures and cultures. Our scenarios outline three future business models: Large corporates become mini-states and take on a more powerful role across society. Specialisation triggers the rise of collaborative networks. The environmental agenda forces fundamental changes to business strategy.

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.

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