{"id":2384,"date":"2020-04-16T03:28:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T03:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:40:03","slug":"change-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/future-of-work\/change-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Change is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA silver lining to be found in this pandemic is that it has forced many issues and societal short-comings to the surface in such an abrupt manner that it has spared us our otherwise likely fate: the American worker being the proverbial frog in the pot as the water increasingly gets warmer and warmer. But now we\u2019re faced with the question, \u201cIs it better to be slowly brought to a boil or to be pulled out of the frying pan, only to be thrown into the fire?\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe were (are) going to have mass unemployment in the not-so-distant future regardless of a global pandemic, due to the increasing demands of a global marketplace and the disruption it will inevitably bring. Automation and innovation will eliminate many of our current jobs, all in the name of increased efficiency. Like the old adage goes, \u201cMarkets say, corporations do. Humans screwed.\u201d It\u2019s like reality just performed a bad impression of Ozzy Osbourne by biting the head off of a bat, slapping us in the face and forcing us to look at ourselves directly in the mirror, made tasteless \u201cyour momma\u201d jokes at our expense, and labeled many of us as \u201cnon-essential.\u201d As if we needed a global pandemic to remind us that our work was non-essential.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI\u2019ve heard it said that COVID-19 will cause 10 years worth of change in 10 weeks (Credit for this phrase to Andrew Yang, Prior 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate). That\u2019s the most accurate summation I\u2019ve heard regarding what I see happening. Our reality is transforming in front of us. What we\u2019re seeing is proof that the shared fiction we\u2019ve all subscribed to is, in fact, more malleable and more fragile than we wanted to believe. The markets will be fine without our labor. In fact, they\u2019ll grow faster as productivity without the cost of labor will raise GDP. In Darwinian logic, there\u2019s simply no way that strategy doesn\u2019t win out. The future of work is going to look vastly different than what we were accustomed to during even the most advanced stages of the industrial revolution. And it\u2019s happening fast.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmployer-employee relationships, and everything that they have come to entail such as health insurance, retirement and pensions, labor laws, and worker protections, etc., were put in place in our nation over decades-long battles and hardships during the industrial revolution throughout the 1900s. Tomorrow\u2019s (now today\u2019s) arrangement(s) for performing work will evolve in response to a technological revolution that encounters competition on a global scale. Not exactly a tit-for-tat comparison. What we\u2019ve fought so hard for and been accustomed to in the last few decades is not sustainable \u2014 even though we\u2019ve tried to hold on to it. What\u2019s coming is inevitable \u2014 even though we haven\u2019t done enough to prepare for it. COVID-19 has become the very vehicle to definitively, if not forcibly, usher in this change. It was the final blow to our archaic, industrial traditions. It will serve as the palpable hinge point between the industrial revolution and the technological revolution.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nWe\u2019ve long known that disruption lay on the horizon and that the way we perform work in our nation is changing.\u00a0We know our jobs will be automated away and that robots lie in wait. Remote work has been a growing trend since the advent of the personal computer in the 1970s. More and more the type of work being created in our economy is being performed outside of a brick-and-mortar site and outside of the confines of direct employment (the implications this will have on real estate is a different conversation). Companies have been shifting towards a distributed workforce model to leverage ad hoc global talent sources for decades.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnother transformation is going to take place during all of this that we need to understand. The extinction of employers. At least, as we have come to know them. Employers with a robust workforce move too slow to survive in a Darwinian, global marketplace. Size is a liability. Mammoth employers, whose responsibility it has become to care for thousands of employees and their families well-being, have been hunted to extinction by small, efficiently organized tech-tribes from Silicone Valley. And where there is a hole in the food chain, be sure nature will fill it in. Exit stage left: employers. Enter: companies. And companies have commitment issues. Commitments are costly. And companies know that shareholders and markets alike are cost-averse. So, the question for our post-coronavirus world is, \u201cWhere will we find our work if not from employers?\u201d And a separate yet eerily relevant question is, \u201cHow will we earn our income, if not from our employer?\u201d I want to end this piece with a bold prediction: the death of the employer makes way for the unimpeded growth of the corporation.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were (are) going to have mass unemployment in the not-so-distant future regardless of a global pandemic, due to the increasing demands of a global marketplace and the disruption it will inevitably bring. Automation and innovation will eliminate many of our current jobs, all in the name of increased efficiency. A silver lining to be found in this pandemic is that it has forced many issues and societal short-comings to the surface in such an abrupt manner that it has spared us our otherwise likely fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":4271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[108],"ppma_author":[3629],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future-of-work","tag-future-of-work"],"authors":[{"term_id":3629,"user_id":772,"is_guest":0,"slug":"miles-crawford","display_name":"Miles Crawford","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"Crawford","first_name":"Miles","job_title":"","description":"Miles Crawford is Founder at Work Fort Smith<\/a>, Go Ye Employment Services that provides staffing, recruiting, training, and innovative labor and workforce arrangements."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35001,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/35001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}