5 – THE EMERGING GIG ECONOMY
The emerging Gig Economy means that there is no longer such a thing a job for life.- in fact, for most individuals this means they are going to have a life of jobs. One estimate is that current students will have more than 10 jobs by the time they are 38. Companies are also going to be seeing a growing contingent workforce (made up of freelancers, independent professionals and temporary contract workers). Research from Ernst and Young shows that two in five organisations expect to increase their use of the contingent workforce by 2020.
This means that people are going to be recruited WITH the skills to do a job; not recruited AND THEN trained to do the job. So if employees want to stay in a company they will therefore need to keep their skills up to date themselves. But in fact, supporting individuals to do just this will actually be beneficial to the organisation as it will reduce the costs of recruitment, So this means helping individuals organize and manage their own professional self-development inline with organizational objectives to achieve a new level of performance.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 22 Oct 15Ron Barnett asserts that higher education has three goals to achieve with students: to create epistemological and ontological disturbance in the minds of the students; (curiosity), enable students to live at ease with this perplexing and unsettling environment; and enable them to make their own positive contributions to this super complex world.
