What Peter Drucker had to say about the temp and freelance economy, unlocked for the weekend. Two extraordinary changes have crept up on the business world without most of us paying much attention to them. First, a staggering number of people who work for organizations are no longer traditional employees of those organizations.

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What happens as machines and artificial intelligence push humans out of the workforce? It's one of the more important problems of our time - theoretical as it may seem in some sectors today - as technology makes industry after industry more efficient. One of the most important tech overlords, Google CEO Larry Page, thinks most people want to work, but they'd be happy working less.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a widely celebrated jobs report this week, showing 288,000 jobs were added in June, bringing unemployment closer to pre-recession levels. It's overwhelmingly great news for much of the economy, but lurking in the shadows is a force displacing more people into part-time work or out of the labor market altogether.

Leur nombre pourrait dépasser celui des employés du secteur public dès la prochaine législature. Adaptation salutaire ou montée de la précarité, le débat n'est pas tranché.

Voici une synthèse de l'étude « Les nouveaux modes de travail à l'ère du digital : enjeux et opportunités », menée en 2013 et 2014 par Orange Business Services avec Sia Partners et Harris Interactive. Plus de 1800 personnes, aux fonctions variées (du DG au responsable d'activité), travaillant dans différents pays européens, mais aussi aux Etats-Unis et en Asie, ont été interviewées. Plusieurs exemples concrets sont donnés pour illustrer chaque tendance.

Smart machines are coming to the business world, but don't tell that to the CEOs. Sixty-percent of CEOs surveyed by Gartner Research say the emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of middle-class jobs within 15 years is a "futurist fantasy." The survey results reflect the anxiety about automation of the work world and the advent of smart machines that Gartner says will have a widespread and deep business impact by 2020.

Après avoir prédit la fin du travail et la troisième révolution industrielle, le prospectiviste Jeremy Rifkin annonce rien de moins que le déclin du capitalisme, éclipsé par l'Internet des objets et l'économie solidaire.

Much has been made recently about one of the stand out trends of the times we live in: Everything is becoming infused with technology. Software is eating the world it is said. Some have claimed that next it might even eat the jobs, which to some degree is almost certainly the case.

Cet article a été publié en janvier 2014 par Knowledge@Wharton, sous le titre "Goodbye, Dilbert: 'The Rise of the Naked Economy'". Dans les pays développés, près de 30% des actifs sont aujourd'hui indépendants ou employés à temps partiel. Ces changements s'accompagnent de préoccupations légitimes quant à la sécurité de l'emploi et aux avantages sociaux qui lui sont liés. Mais dans leur dernier ouvrage, The Rise of the Naked Economy: How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace, Ryan Coonerty et Jeremy Neuner montrent que la nouvelle réalité présente aussi des avantages incontestables. Bien compris et maîtrisés, les changements à l'œuvre pourraient donner des existences plus productives, plus heureuses, plus pérennes.

Social media, mobile devices, gamification, MOOCs: what #OEB13's upcoming keynote speaker Jeanne Meister thinks about the workplace of the future.

My keynote deck on what organizations will have to design for in the next 7 years as they update their structure and processes to deal with high-velocity technological change in a deeply digital, social, mobile, data-centric, cloud-based world. The key: To design our organizations for a more network-centric and participatory model employing the latest digital tools, in an environment designed around constant change and learning. Presented at the Jive, IDC, PwC Leadership Summit at #JiveWorld on October 23rd, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Technology is hailed as a powerful engine of job creation, but things may not be as rosy as we like to think. Yes, it creates opportunities for new businesses and new roles across all sectors, but there is also evidence that tech destroys jobs, and is largely behind the sluggish employment growth of the past 10 to 15 years.

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.

An important new study by Youngjoo Cha and Kim A. Weeden reports that the wage premium for "overwork"-working more than 50 hours a week-has risen sharply. In 1979, there was actually a wage penalty for overwork; but this turned into a wage premium after the mid-1990s. Because men tend to overwork more than women, the rising overwork premium raised men's wages more than women's, and has effectively erased the advantage women gained by increasing their higher education levels.

This mindset, created by the peculiar demography of upper-level management, is increasingly out of sync with most of the workforce. Younger men increasingly want schedules that work around family needs - just as women have been demanding for years.

The study, a collaboration between Dr. Carl Benedikt Frey (Oxford Martin School) and Dr. Michael A. Osborne (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford), found that jobs in transportation, logistics, and office/administrative support are at "high risk" of automation.

Selon une étude portant sur plus de 300 000 offres d'emploi publiées par des TPE-PME sur Freelancer.com au deuxième trimestre 2013, la demande a bondi respectivement de 14,6% et 14% par rapport au premier trimestre pour les experts en télémarketing et marketing par email, rapporte Freelancer.com.

" Les missions démarrent à 20 euros et sont en moyenne inférieures à 200 euros. Un concept « gagnant-gagnant » ..." Là, j'ai pas tout compris.

The jobs won't all necessarily be lost, as technology will also make many workers more productive, but as always there will be losers, according to McKinsey and Company in their report into the most disruptive technologies for the next decade.

Report| McKinsey Global Institute Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/disruptive_technologies