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"Gartner Says That by 2017, 25 Percent of Enterprises Will Have an Enterprise App Store Growing Number of Enterprise Mobile Devices and Enterprise Adoption of MDM Will Drive Demand and Adoption of Enterprise App Stores Analysts Examine the State of the Industry at Gartner Application Architecture, Development By 2017, 25 percent of enterprises will have an enterprise app store for managing corporate-sanctioned apps on PCs and mobile devices, according to Gartner, Inc. Enterprise app stores promise greater control over the apps used by employees, greater control over software expenditures and greater negotiating leverage with app vendors, but this greater control is only possible if the enterprise app store is widely adopted.  "Apps downloaded from public app stores for mobile devices disrupt IT security, application and procurement strategies," said Ian Finley, research vice president at Gartner. "Bring your own application (BYOA) has become as important as bring your own device (BYOD) in the development of a comprehensive mobile strategy, and the trend toward BYOA has begun to affect desktop and Web applications as well. Enterprise app stores promise at least a partial solution but only if IT security, application, procurement and sourcing professionals can work together to successfully apply the app store concept to their enterprises. When successful, they can increase the value delivered by the application portfolio and reduce the associated risks, license fees and administration expenses."  Gartner has identified three key enterprise app store trends and recommendations of how organizations can benefit from them:  The increasing number of enterprise mobile devices and the adoption of mobile device management (MDM) by enterprises will drive demand and adoption of enterprise app stores. Enterprises already have numerous choices for downloading software onto PCs, but most of them don't include support for smartphones and tablets. Enterprises are beginning to f

This CSCW workshop will bring together researchers in social computing, organizational science, and workplace research, as well as industry experts to examine the implications of crowdwork on the future of organizational work.

Le taux de participation des hommes à la population active aux Etats-Unis est en baisse constante depuis les années 50, souligne Rich Morin pour le Pew Research Center, alors que celle des femmes n'a cessé de progressé avant de se stabiliser depuis 10 ans. Les femmes quittent moins leur emploi et sont mieux formées que les hommes, estiment les analystes.

"Allen, a PhD chemist who works for the Dow Chemical Company in Pennsylvania, began to think about ways he could leverage r/science's massive reach to connect scientists to the general public. R/science is a default subreddit, meaning it's visible to people visiting Reddit.com even if they aren't logged in. According to internal metrics Allen has access to, r/science gets between 30,000 and 100,000 unique visitors a day; it's arguably the largest community-run science forum on the internet. So what if r/science were to form an AMA series of its own, focused solely on working scientists who are producing interesting, groundbreaking research?"

He works as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business, which is part of the Sloan School of Management

Le taux de participation des hommes à la population active aux Etats-Unis est en baisse constante depuis les années 50, souligne Rich Morin pour le Pew Research Center, alors que celle des femmes n'a cessé de progressé avant de se stabiliser depuis 10 ans. Les femmes quittent moins leur emploi et sont mieux formées que les hommes, estiment les analystes.

Une récente enquête effectuée par l'institut américain On Device Research vient confirmer une nouvelle fois que les jeunes en âge de travailler (enquête sur les 16-34 ans) sont toujours aussi peu conscients de l'impact de l'image qu'ils donnent d'eux sur le net - spécialement sur les réseaux sociaux - c'est-à-dire de leur e-réputation, web-réputation, cyber-réputation ou réputation numérique, comme on voudra

Le business de la "sharing economy", c'est encore beaucoup la précarité des "employés".

Base de données des recherches SHS sur l'open data dans le monde : partagée et nourrie par quelques chercheurs  anglo-saxons, français, canadiens, etc. 

Two papers came out last year that examined important issues around jobs and wages. Both are in top journals. Both were written by first-rate researchers, none of whom specialize in studying the impact of technology. And both came to the same conclusion: that digital technologies were largely responsible for the phenomena they examined. Paper 1 Equally admirable are the graphs the authors draw to illustrate their main findings. Here's the one for jobs (the one for wages has a pretty similar shape). It gives the changes in employment share - which you can think of as changes in the the 'market share' of jobs - between 1980 and 2005. And it shows vividly that low-skill and high-skill jobs gained market share over that period, which those in the middle of the skill range lost. Paper 2 We document, however, that the global labor share has significantly declined since the early 1980s, with the decline occurring within the large majority of countries and industries. We show that the decrease in the relative price of investment goods, often attributed to advances in information technology and the computer age, induced firms to shift away from labor and toward capital.

"Sur l'excellent blog (@msrsmc) de Microsoft Research consacré aux médias sociaux, la chercheuse Mary Gray, revient sur le développement de la "tâchification" du travail. Ce travail à la pièce en ligne (on parle de crowdwork, le travail par la foule pour désigner par exemple le travail découpé sous forme de micro-tâche comme le réalise le Mechanical Turk d'Amazon), qui est une des formes du digital labor (voir notamment "Qui des algorithmes ou des clients seront nos nouveaux patrons ?"), représente un changement radical dans la façon dont nous définissons l'emploi lui-même, estime Mary Gray. Ces travailleurs à la tâche ne sont ni pas des employés, mais des utilisateurs, des "clients" de ces plateformes qui proposent des tâches à prix fixe et qui lient les contractants à leurs donneurs d'ordres par des "accords d'utilisation", des conditions d'utilisation qui ressemblent plus à des licences logicielles qu'à des contrats de travail. "

"Are lacklustre wages an inevitable consequence of globalisation and technological change? Or has policy had a role to play? Technology, according to new research presented at the annual conference of the UK's Royal Economic Society, is not in itself the problem. Instead, a mix of globalisation and the decline of worker bargaining power have been responsible for employees' woes. And, the paper suggests, bolstering trade unions would be a better way to shore up workers in the future than skills training."

The first phase of the SEA-SoNS ("Assessing the Benefits of Social Networks on Organizations") project aimed to analyse the current market situation for a limited number of social media stakeholders, to identify and analyse best practices for these selected stakeholders, and to define and prioritise relevant policy options. While social media technologies present several potential benefits to organisations, there are considerable challenges and bottlenecks affecting their adoption that may warrant policy intervention. To accomplish the objective of developing suitable policy options, the project undertook a range of research and data collection activities, including a review of the literature, a scoping workshop, semi-structured interviews, an on-line 'animation' of stakeholders, and a brainstorming workshop. The main results were presented at the Digital Agenda Assembly (DAA) 2012.

"The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away. Over the last year I've been speaking with many corporate business and HR leaders and have heard a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign the organization so we can learn faster, communicate better, and respond more rapidly to change. This quest for the agile organization has changed the nature of what we call a job. "

"The 38-year-old resident of Kingston, Jamaica, recently began performing small tasks assigned to her by an algorithm running on a computer in Berkeley, California. That software, developed by a startup called MobileWorks, represents the latest trend in crowdsourcing: organizing foreign workers on a mass scale to do routine jobs that computers aren't yet good at, like checking spreadsheets or reading receipts."

Les 10 compétences qui seront essentielles à tous les travailleurs en 2020 selon l'université de Phoenix : Transdisclinarité Collaboration virtuelle Sense-making Intelligence sociale Competence cross-culturelle Cognitive load management Novel and adaptive thinking Computational thinking New media literacy Design mindset

"Previous technological innovation has always delivered more long-run employment, not less. But things can change"