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Aurialie Jublin

Technology and jobs: Coming to an office near you | The Economist - 0 views

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technologie emploi tictravail innovation

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  • Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technology’s impact will feel like a tornado, hitting the rich world first, but eventually sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.
  • Worse, it seems likely that this wave of technological disruption to the job market has only just started. From driverless cars to clever household gadgets (see article), innovations that already exist could destroy swathes of jobs that have hitherto been untouched. The public sector is one obvious target: it has proved singularly resistant to tech-driven reinvention. But the step change in what computers can do will have a powerful effect on middle-class jobs in the private sector too.
  • One recent study by academics at Oxford University suggests that 47% of today’s jobs could be automated in the next two decades.
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  • At the same time, the digital revolution is transforming the process of innovation itself, as our special report explains. Thanks to off-the-shelf code from the internet and platforms that host services (such as Amazon’s cloud computing), provide distribution (Apple’s app store) and offer marketing (Facebook), the number of digital startups has exploded. J
  • f this analysis is halfway correct, the social effects will be huge. Many of the jobs most at risk are lower down the ladder (logistics, haulage), whereas the skills that are least vulnerable to automation (creativity, managerial expertise) tend to be higher up, so median wages are likely to remain stagnant for some time and income gaps are likely to widen.
  • The main way in which governments can help their people through this dislocation is through education systems. One of the reasons for the improvement in workers’ fortunes in the latter part of the Industrial Revolution was because schools were built to educate them—a dramatic change at the time. Now those schools themselves need to be changed, to foster the creativity that humans will need to set them apart from computers. There should be less rote-learning and more critical thinking. Technology itself will help, whether through MOOCs (massive open online courses) or even video games that simulate the skills needed for work.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 17 Jan 14
     
    "INNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers were swept aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were."
Aurialie Jublin

Automation may require as many as 375 million people to find new jobs by 2030 - Quartz - 0 views

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automatisation emploi chiffre

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  • y 2030, up to 30% of the hours worked globally could be automated, according to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Analysts in the consultancy’s research arm estimate that between 400 million and 800 million people could find themselves displaced by automation and in need of new jobs, depending on how quickly new technologies are adopted. Of this group, as many as 375 million people—about 14% of the global workforce—may need to completely switch occupational categories and learn a new set of skills to find work.
  • Notably, McKinsey argues that demand for work will increase as automation grows. Technology will drive productivity growth, which will in turn lead to rising incomes and consumption, especially in developing countries. Meanwhile, there will be more jobs in health care to meet the demands of aging societies and more investment in infrastructure and energy.
  • For these benefits to be realised, everyone needs to gain new skills, with governments and private companies taking on the unprecedented task of retraining millions of people in the middle of their careers. “Even if there is enough work to ensure full employment by 2030, major transitions lie ahead that could match or even exceed the scale of historical shifts out of agriculture and manufacturing,” the report says.
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  • There will be other challenges too. In advanced economies, there is a risk that automation will worsen the trend of income polarization, with demand for high-wage jobs increasing, and demand for medium-wage jobs falling. Also, displaced workers will need to find jobs quickly—preferably within a year—otherwise frictional unemployment (lots of people moving between jobs) could put downward pressure on wages.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 01 Dec 17
     
    "Fears that automation and machine learning will cause massive job losses and make people obsolete are starting to wane (well, unless you ask Stephen Hawking). Instead, there's a more optimistic prediction taking hold: that the new technology could actually lead to job gains. But the transition won't be easy."
Aurialie Jublin

Are There Good Jobs in the Gig Economy? - 0 views

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gig economy

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  • Author Louis Hyman, a Cornell professor and economic historian, notes that in America traditional organizations began moving away from offers of full-time employment and toward more-flexible short-term staffing jobs as a result of both new management ideas (such as the Lean Revolution) and changing values (such as prioritizing short-term profits). This restructuring of the workforce was facilitated, he emphasizes, by management consultants, who believed that “the long hours, the tensions, the uncertainty were all a perfectly reasonable way to work,” and by temp agencies, which created pools of standby, on-demand labor. By the 1980s temps were providing not emergency help but cyclical replacement.
  • Hyman’s stats are striking: By 1988 about nine-tenths of businesses were using temp labor; since 1991 every economic downturn has meant a permanent loss of jobs; by 1995, 85% of companies were “outsourcing all or part of at least one business function
  • Aurialie Jublin on 29 Jun 18
     
    "Advocates of these "alternative work arrangements"-many of which are enabled by sharing or on-demand apps such as Uber and TaskRabbit-bill them as a way to trade unemployment, burnout, or hating one's job for freedom, flexibility, and financial gains. Skeptics, meanwhile, point to the costly trade-offs: unstable earnings, few or no benefits, reduced job security, and stalled career advancement. But what do the gig workers themselves say? Gigged, a new book by Sarah Kessler, an editor at Quartz, focuses on their perspective. In profiling a variety of people in contingent jobs-from a 28-year-old waiter and Uber driver in Kansas City, to a 24-year-old programmer who quit his New York office job to join Gigster, to a 30-something mother in Canada who is earning money through Mechanical Turk-Kessler illuminates a great divide: For people with desirable skills, the gig economy often permits a more engaging, entrepreneurial lifestyle; but for the unskilled who turn to such work out of necessity, it's merely "the best of bad options.""
Aurialie Jublin

Why the Robots Might Not Take Our Jobs After All: They Lack Common Sense - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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robot sens automatisation intelligence emploi

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  • “Many of the middle-skill jobs that persist in the future will combine routine technical tasks with the set of non-routine tasks in which workers hold comparative advantage — interpersonal interaction, flexibility, adaptability and problem-solving,” Mr. Autor writes. He specifically mentions medical support jobs, building trades and some clerical jobs that require decision-making rather than typing and filing.In the paper, Mr. Autor presents data showing that these middle-skill jobs have indeed been under pressure over the last few decades, with much stronger growth in the number of both very basic low-paying jobs and the most advanced jobs for skilled professionals. It is a hollowing-out of the American work force, in effect, with fewer jobs for technicians and factory workers and the middle-class wages that come with them.
  • “I expect that a significant stratum of middle-skill, non-college jobs combining specific vocational skills with foundational middle skills — literacy, numeracy, adaptability, problem-solving and common sense — will persist in the coming decades.” He argues that it is hard to blame computerization for jobs that have disappeared over the last decade in that much of the shift happened after capital investment in information technology fell following the collapse of the dot-com bubble.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 27 Aug 14
     
    "So what does that mean for workers over the years and decades ahead? Mr. Autor says that this weakness leaves plenty of opportunities for humans to serve as intermediaries of sorts between increasingly intelligent computers that nonetheless lack that common sense. He invokes the idea of "Polanyi's Paradox," named for the Hungarian thinker Michael Polanyi, who observed that "we know more than we can tell," meaning humans can do immensely complicated things like drive a car or tell one species of bird from another without fully understanding the technical details. "Following Polanyi's observation," Mr. Autor writes, "the tasks that have proved most vexing to automate are those demanding flexibility, judgment, and common sense - skills that we understand only tacitly.""
Aurialie Jublin

The End of a Job as We Know It - 0 views

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tictravail travail emploi organisation agilité

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  • Pfizer, for example, has set "increase business agility" as one of its four goals for the coming year. The company created an internal labor marketplace called PfizerWorks that lets employees bid on work from each other. Executives at Siemens told me that one of their biggest challenges today is moving engineers into new roles so they can focus on new business areas. InBev (Anheuser Busch), Scotiabank, and MetLife have all launched global talent mobility programs to force people to gain global awareness and expand business opportunities.
  • In our research we call this "the borderless workplace," a concept which explains how workers work seamlessly with people inside and outside their organization on a continuous basis. And this shift has redefined what a “job” actually is.
  • What this all means is that in today's high performing companies, people now take on "roles" not "jobs." They are responsible for "tasks" and "projects" and not simply "functions."
  • Aurialie Jublin on 21 Feb 13
     
    "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. "
Aurialie Jublin

JobSharing, cabinet de conseil RH dédié au Job sharing et aux temps partiels pour les postes à responsabilités - Vers une articulation des temps de vie ! - 0 views

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tictravail travail temps interview

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  • La flexibilité du travail est désormais au cœur des débats économiques et sociaux. Le job sharing est un nouveau modèle d’organisation du travail au service de l’entreprise notamment pour le pilotage de sa politique d'innovation sociale et de diversité ainsi qu’un levier potentiel de réduction des coûts. Les études internationales montrent que le job sharing offre aux entreprises de nombreux avantages : hausse de la productivité et maintien de la continuité de services ; engagement dans l’égalité professionnelle, la parentalité et le bien vivre ; réduction des coûts ; diminution du turn over et des absences ; attractivité, motivation et fidélisation de ses salariés. Enfin, en proposant le job sharing dans le cadre de réorganisations par exemple, l’entreprise devient un acteur « responsable » en aménagement sa masse salariale plutôt qu’en la supprimant. Ainsi, elle peut maintenir l’employabilité de ses salariés, point crucial dans une période de crise.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 20 May 13
     
    Interview des 2 fondatrices "Le job sharing est une pratique innovante qui consiste à partager son poste à responsabilités avec un autre collaborateur. Il s'agit d'un mode de travail peu connu en France mais pourtant pratiqué par plus de la moitié des grandes sociétés anglo-saxonnes. On le retrouve également ainsi en Suisse, en Belgique ou encore dans les pays scandinaves."
Aurialie Jublin

Motivation des salariés : le Job Crafting, donner du sens au travail - 0 views

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motivation bien être travail sens

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  • Concrètement, qu'est-ce que le Job Crafting ? Traduit littéralement, cela signifie peu ou prou « travail façonné par la main », autrement dit c'est la manière dont le collaborateur adapte, modèle, sculpte, transforme son Job afin de le rendre plus attrayant, moins routinier, moins rythmé par les mêmes tâches répétitives, donc moins ennuyeux...
  • Le Job Crafting, dont l'objectif est de remobiliser continuellement les talents, consiste à laisser le collaborateur libre de réorganiser son travail, par exemple en passant moins de temps sur une tâche rébarbative pour se consacrer davantage aux missions qui l'enthousiasment et lui procurent du plaisir. Cela suppose l'autonomie et la polyvalence des salariés. 
  • L’architecte de son propre réseau est appelé Network Crafter. En créant du lien pour s’épanouir dans leur poste, il utilise les réseaux internes et externes comme outils de travail. L’idée est de développer les relations humaines pour mieux appréhender la personnalité et le rôle de chacun au sein de l’organisation. Le Network Crafter propose par exemple, un échange de poste pour comprendre les différentes missions de son interlocuteur interne. Ainsi les demandes sont mieux orientées et les réponses deviennent plus efficaces. Ce gain de temps contribue à l’efficacité de son travail.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 27 Jan 14
     
    "Le Job Crafting est l'art de laisser le collaborateur libre de « façonner » son travail pour le rendre plus attractif. Cette démarche responsabilisante qui implique l'assentiment du top management, fait baisser le taux d'absentéisme et de turnover."
Aurialie Jublin

'My father had one job in his life, I've had six in mine, my kids will have six at the same time' | Society | The Guardian - 1 views

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travail

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  • “My reading of the evidence so far,” he says, “is that there will be less job creating and ever-greater labour saving. If we look at the creation of new occupations by decade, they accounted for 8.2% of new jobs in the 1980s, 4.4% in the 1990s, and 0.5% in 2000s. It is not necessarily true that we will have a jobless future. But I struggle to use my imagination to see which industries will emerge to balance the loss of jobs.”
  • A lot of the change, he suggests, has to do with a transformed idea of freedom. When the older generation thinks of freedom it imagines it as autonomy, self-sufficiency, personal choice. “Freedom is exclusivity.” When the younger generation thinks of freedom, he suggests, it is no longer about exclusivity, it is about inclusivity. “For them the more networks they are in, the more social capital they establish, the more free they feel,” he says. “It is about expanding the network. This is the sharing economy.”
  • Aurialie Jublin on 03 Dec 15
     
    "In the 'gig' or 'sharing' economy, say the experts, we will do lots of different jobs as technology releases us from the nine to five. But it may also bring anxiety, insecurity and low wages "
abrugiere

Ennui au travail... Et si vous passiez au job crafting ? - LEntreprise.com - 0 views

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travail

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  • abrugiere on 13 Dec 12
     
    job crafting ". Littéralement " faire son job à sa main ". Une méthode simple, efficace, à la portée de tous, à condition de sortir de sa zone de confort. Il y a mille et une manières de gérer une équipe, mais un seul moteur, le désir. Voici donc cinq portes à ouvrir pour réinventer son métier
Aurialie Jublin

The Day I Drove for Amazon Flex - The Atlantic - 0 views

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amazon condition de travail qvt

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  • But Flex operates year-round, not just during the holiday season, which suggests there’s another reason for it: It’s cheap. As the larger trucking industry has discovered over the past decade, using independent contractors rather than unionized drivers saves money, because so many expenses are borne by the drivers, rather than the company.
  • The company doesn’t share information about how many drivers it has, but one Seattle economist calculated that 11,262 individuals drove for Flex in California between October 2016 and March 2017, based on information Amazon shared with him to help the company defend a lawsuit about Flex drivers.
  • “A lot of these gig-type services essentially rely on people not doing the math on what it actually costs you,”
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  • One Amazon Flex driver in Cleveland, Chris Miller, 63, told me that though he makes $18 an hour, he spends about 40 cents per mile he drives on expenses like gas and car repairs. He bought his car, used, with 40,000 miles on it. It now has 140,000, after driving for Flex for seven months, and Uber and Lyft before that. That means he’s incurred about $40,000 in expenses—things he didn’t think about initially, like changing the oil more frequently and replacing headlights and taillights. He made slightly less than $10 an hour driving for Uber, he told me, once he factored in these expenses; Flex pays a bit better.
  • If the driver gets into a car accident, the driver, not Amazon, is responsible for medical and insurance costs. If a driver gets a speeding ticket, the driver pays. (UPS and FedEx usually pay their trucks’ tickets, but Amazon explicitly says in the contract Flex drivers sign that drivers are responsible for fees and fines­.)
  • Brown likes to work two shifts delivering groceries for Amazon, from 4:30 to 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 to 8:30 a.m., but the morning we talked, no 4:30 shifts were available. He sometimes wakes up at 3 a.m. and does what Flex workers call the “sip and tap,” sitting at home and drinking coffee while refreshing the app, hoping new blocks come up. He does not get paid for the hour he spends tapping. Twice in the last year, he’s been barred from seeing new blocks for seven days because Amazon accused him of using a bot to grab blocks—he says he just taps the app so frequently Amazon assumes he’s cheating.
  • Akunts said that people often get “deactivated,” which means they receive a message telling them they can no longer drive for Flex. Sometimes, the workers don’t know why they’ve been terminated and their contract annulled, he told me. It can take as long as a month to get reinstated.
  • But lots of people risk it and park illegally in meters, he told me—the number of parking citations issued in the first three months of the year for people parking illegally at red and yellow meters grew 29 percent from 2016, according to data provided to me by the city.
  • And then there was the fact that the Flex technology itself was difficult to use. Flex workers are supposed to scan each package before they deliver it, but the app wouldn’t accept my scans. When I called support, unsure of what to do, I received a recorded messaging saying support was experiencing technical difficulties, but would be up again soon. Then I got a message on my phone telling me the current average wait time for support was “less than 114,767 minutes.” I ended up just handing the packages to people in the offices without scanning them, hoping that someone, somewhere, was tracking where they went.
  • Technology was making their jobs better—they worked in offices that provided free food and drinks, and they received good salaries, benefits, and stock options. They could click a button and use Amazon to get whatever they wanted delivered to their offices—I brought 16 packages for 13 people to one office; one was so light I was sure it was a pack of gum, another felt like a bug-spray container.
  • But now, technology was enabling Amazon to hire me to deliver these packages with no benefits or perks. If one of these workers put the wrong address on the package, they would get a refund, while I was scurrying around trying to figure out what they meant when they listed their address as “fifth floor” and there was no fifth floor. How could these two different types of jobs exist in the same economy?
  • Gig-economy jobs like this one are becoming more and more common. The number of “non-employer firms” in the ground-transportation sector—essentially freelancers providing rides through various platforms—grew 69 percent from 2010 to 2014, the most recent year for which there is data available, according to a Brookings analysis of Census Bureau and Moody’s data.
  • “We’re going to take the billion hours Americans spend driving to stores and taking things off shelves, and we’re going to turn it into jobs,” Viscelli said. “The fundamental question is really what the quality of these jobs is going to be.”
  • Liss-Riordan says one of the biggest obstacles in getting workers to take legal action over their classification is that many Flex workers agree, upon signing up to deliver packages, to resolve disputes with Amazon through arbitration. Companies can now use arbitration clauses to prevent workers from joining together to file class-action lawsuits, because of a May Supreme Court ruling.
  • Even weeks after I’d stopped driving for Flex, I kept getting new notifications from Amazon, telling me that increased rates were available, tempting me to log back in and make a few extra bucks, making me feel guilty for not opening the app, even though I have another job.
  • My tech-economy experience was far less lucrative. In total, I drove about 40 miles (not counting the 26 miles I had to drive between the warehouse and my apartment). I was paid $70, but had $20 in expenses, based on the IRS mileage standards. I had narrowly avoided a $110 parking ticket, which felt like a win, but my earnings, added up, were $13.33 an hour. That’s less than San Francisco’s $14 minimum wage.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 29 Jun 18
     
    "Amazon Flex allows drivers to get paid to deliver packages from their own vehicles. But is it a good deal for workers?"
Aurialie Jublin

"J'ai un job à la con" : neuf salariés racontent leur boulot vide de sens - L'Obs - 1 views

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travail sens bullshit job

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 19 Apr 16
     
    "Claire perd son temps sur Facebook, Antoine rédige des rapports qui ne sont jamais lus, Martha passe des jours à retoucher une photo de diamant. « Nous avons recréé des métiers vides de sens pour exister socialement », se désole Martin. Des « bullshit job », selon l'expression popularisée par l'anthropologue américain David Graeber. Neuf salariés nous racontent leur boulot quotidien, plein d'ennui ou vide de sens."
Aurialie Jublin

The future of jobs: The onrushing wave | The Economist - 1 views

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tictravail travail emploi technologie

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  • The machines are not just cleverer, they also have access to far more data. The combination of big data and smart machines will take over some occupations wholesale; in others it will allow firms to do more with fewer workers. Text-mining programs will displace professional jobs in legal services. Biopsies will be analysed more efficiently by image-processing software than lab technicians. Accountants may follow travel agents and tellers into the unemployment line as tax software improves. Machines are already turning basic sports results and financial data into good-enough news stories.
  • There will still be jobs. Even Mr Frey and Mr Osborne, whose research speaks of 47% of job categories being open to automation within two decades, accept that some jobs—especially those currently associated with high levels of education and high wages—will survive (see table). Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University and a much-read blogger, writes in his most recent book, “Average is Over”, that rich economies seem to be bifurcating into a small group of workers with skills highly complementary with machine intelligence, for whom he has high hopes, and the rest, for whom not so much.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 17 Jan 14
     
    "Previous technological innovation has always delivered more long-run employment, not less. But things can change"
Aurialie Jublin

How to Get a Job at Google - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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google travail éducation diplome compétence

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  • “There are five hiring attributes we have across the company,” explained Bock. “If it’s a technical role, we assess your coding ability, and half the roles in the company are technical roles. For every job, though, the No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not I.Q. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly. It’s the ability to pull together disparate bits of information. We assess that using structured behavioral interviews that we validate to make sure they’re predictive.”
  • The second, he added, “is leadership — in particular emergent leadership as opposed to traditional leadership.
  • What else? Humility and ownership. “It’s feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in,” he said, to try to solve any problem — and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. “Your end goal,” explained Bock, “is what can we do together to problem-solve.
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  • The least important attribute they look for is “expertise.” Said Bock: “If you take somebody who has high cognitive ability, is innately curious, willing to learn and has emergent leadership skills, and you hire them as an H.R. person or finance person, and they have no content knowledge, and you compare them with someone who’s been doing just one thing and is a world expert, the expert will go: ‘I’ve seen this 100 times before; here’s what you do.’ ” Most of the time the nonexpert will come up with the same answer, added Bock, “because most of the time it’s not that hard.”
  • Aurialie Jublin on 26 Feb 14
     
    Pas forcément besoin de diplôme "LAST June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google - i.e., the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world's most successful companies - noted that Google had determined that "G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. ... We found that they don't predict anything." He also noted that the "proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time" - now as high as 14 percent on some teams. At a time when many people are asking, "How's my kid gonna get a job?" I thought it would be useful to visit Google and hear how Bock would answer."
Aurialie Jublin

In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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travail tictravail précarité économie collaborative liberté

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  • In a climate of continuing high unemployment, however, people like Ms. Guidry are less microentrepreneurs than microearners. They often work seven-day weeks, trying to assemble a living wage from a series of one-off gigs. They have little recourse when the services for which they are on call change their business models or pay rates. To reduce the risks, many workers toggle among multiple services.
  • Certainly, it’s a good deal for consumers. Peer marketplaces democratize luxury services by making amateur chauffeurs, chefs and personal assistants available to perform occasional work once largely dominated by full-time professionals. Venture capital firms seem convinced.
  • In July, 9.7 million Americans were unemployed, and an additional 7.5 million were working part-time jobs because they could not find full-time work, according to estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.There are no definitive statistics on how many people work in the gig economy. But according to a report from MBO Partners, a company that provides consulting services to independent contractors, about 17.7 million Americans last year worked more than half time as independent contributors, among them project workers.
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  • Jamie Viggiano, senior director of marketing at TaskRabbit, says the company is trying to improve the situation for its 30,000 contractors in 19 cities in the United States. It recently instituted a sitewide minimum wage of $15 an hour. It also adopted a $1 million insurance policy, covering both clients and contractors, for any property damage or bodily harm that occurs while performing a job. Still, Ms. Viggiano says that “across the industry, we have only scratched the surface of helping freelancers work in the gig economy.”
  • Technology has made online marketplaces possible, creating new opportunities to monetize labor and goods. But some economists say the short-term gig services may erode work compensation in the long term. Mr. Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, argues that online labor marketplaces are able to drive down costs for consumers by having it both ways: behaving as de facto employers without shouldering the actual cost burdens or liabilities of employing workers.
  • Labor activists say gig enterprises may also end up disempowering workers, degrading their access to fair employment conditions.“These are not jobs, jobs that have any future, jobs that have the possibility of upgrading; this is contingent, arbitrary work,” says Stanley Aronowitz, director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “It might as well be called wage slavery in which all the cards are held, mediated by technology, by the employer, whether it is the intermediary company or the customer.”
  • TaskRabbit has started offering its contractors access to discounted health insurance and accounting services. Lyft has formed a partnership with Freelancers Union, making its drivers eligible for the advocacy group’s health plan and other benefit programs.That may not be enough. Dr. Standing, the labor economist, says workers need formal protections to address the power asymmetries inherent in contingent work. International rules, he says, could endow gig workers with basic entitlements — like the right to organize and the right to due process should companies seek to remove them from their platforms.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 18 Aug 14
     
    Le business de la "sharing economy", c'est encore beaucoup la précarité des "employés".
Aurialie Jublin

What Value Creation Will Look Like in the Future - Jack Hughes - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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valeur management créativité

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 27 May 13
     
    The value of products and services today is based more and more on creativity - the innovative ways that they take advantage of new materials, technologies, and processes. Value creation in the past was a function of economies of industrial scale: mass production and the high efficiency of repeatable tasks. Value creation in the future will be based on economies of creativity: mass customization and the high value of bringing a new product or service improvement to market; the ability to find a solution to a vexing customer problem; or, the way a new product or service is sold and delivered. Organizational structure will have to change to meet the new reality of creativity as a core component of value and continuous innovation as the mechanism to sustain it. The new organization will include structures that support innovation 24/7/365 and at increasing scale. They will be more like organisms than machines. They'll be structurally fluid - bringing individuals together in creative networks designed to adapt to an ever changing landscape of customer needs and desires, often at a moment's notice. Management will be the job of those who oversee creative economies, ecosystems, and communities; it will be the job of managing innovation on a continuous basis where scale is used to create differentiated products and services to solve problems and meet needs on a customer by customer basis - all in real or near real time.
Aurialie Jublin

After Your Job Is Gone | TechCrunch - 1 views

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tictravail travail chomage controverse technologie

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  • If this scenario plays out, the world will divide into a dwindling minority of the very rich — tech workers, finance barons, and those who inherited their wealth, mostly — living in a handful of idyllic cities dripping with wealth, and/or their summer homes on nearby beaches, lakes, and mountains … and the majority who barely get by, doing occasional contract work or odd jobs for a little extra money, too poor to even visit the places where the rich live, work, and play. Aside from those few with government jobs, there’ll be hardly any middle class at all between those two groups.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 04 Jun 13
     
    Article complet sur la disparition des emplois, sur la question "la technologie détruit-elle plus d'emploi qu'elle en créé?" et sur la mise en place d'un revenu minimum
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The Future of Work | MIT Technology Review - 2 views

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tictravail Future innovation travail automatisation

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 28 Jun 13
     
    Dossier de juillet 2012 "In July's business report Technology Review examines the cutting edge of automation-the jobs it is destroying and the prosperity it is creating. During the month, we'll explore the latest in commercial robotics and reveal how IT advances are bringing automation to jobs never before done by machines."
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Why new technology is draining meaning from your job - 0 views

www.irishtimes.com/...eaning-from-your-job-1.2959519

sens travail

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 04 Feb 17
     
    Job insecurity and technology have created a crisis in today's workplace
Aurialie Jublin

L'entreprise de demain : BYOD, DYOJ et CYOB ? | Le Blog de Claude Super - 1 views

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tictravail travail individu

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  • Avec les schémas d’organisation qui se profilent, le rôle sera probablement plus valorisé que la fonction mettant ainsi à bas une longue tradition d’appréciation de la personne au regard de sa position dans un organigramme et c’est un énorme chantier notamment pour les personnes travaillant dans les RH.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 13 Jan 14
     
    "BYOD = Bring Your Own Device : apporter son matériel DYOB = Design Your Own Job : dresser les contours de son Job CYOB = Choose Your Own Boss : Choisir son patron Etre indépendant …. en quelque sorte"
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs | Strike! Magazine - 0 views

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chômage tictravail automatisation capitalisme

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  • julien camacho on 26 Aug 13
     
    Déjà dans les années 30, J.M. Keynes, un des économistes les plus influents du XXième siècle et théoricien du "new deal", prédisait la semaine de travail de 15 heures. Plus de 70 ans plus tard, et avec une automatisation toujours croissante du travail productif, quels sont les blocages et les raisons qui ont finalement invalidé cette prophétie?
  • Thierry Nabeth on 29 Aug 13
     
    Voir aussi un article de Libération, 28 août 2013: Vers une société de «jobs à la con» ?http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2013/08/28/y-a-t-il-un-phenomene-des-jobs-a-la-con_927711
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