An educational presentation that explores how technology is changing the way people work together. Learn more at http://www.odesk.com/. A video version can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Yt4wxSblc

2. Consider this…

3. Ten years ago there were
no social networks.

4. Ten years before that
we didn't have the Web.

5. If you work in the
web programming, online
marketing, or mobile phone
industries…

6. your job did not exist
twenty years ago.

7. Who knows what jobs will exist
twenty years from now?

8. The people out of work today
will soon find jobs again.

9. The people out of work today
will soon find jobs again.

10. FUTURE OF WORK?
What is the

11. The future of work is…
TRANSPARENT

12. just take your word for it.
No one is going to

13. In the past, productivity was difficult
(if not impossible) to measure.

14. Business wasted millions of dollars every year
paying for employee downtime.

15. Now, time and task tracking tools are
revolutionizing productivity measurement.

16. Each employee’s work can
be directly tied to
the bottom line.

17. The more productively you work,
the more money you’ll make.

18. The future of work is…
FLAT

19. about their commute.
No one is going to complain

20. In real estate the mantra is
“Location. Location. Location.”

21. At work the mantra is
“Communication. Communication.
Communication.”

22. considered a place.
“Work” used to be

23. The only options for communication were
landline phones or snail mail.

24. Today, project teams use amazing web tools
anywhere in the world.
to work together from

25. virtually free.
long-distance calling
Tools like Skype have made

26. The world is now flat.

27. The world is now flat.
organization

28. Call centers used to be massive offices built in
rural areas or countries like India.

29. In 2004 JetBlue started a revolution, allowing
700 customer service reps to work from home
with no central office.

30. In the future,
location will not matter.

31. COMPETITIVE
The future of work is…

32. just for having a degree.
No one is going to pay you

33. 1990 2000 2007
29%
15.5%
13.1%
The percentage of
Americans with a
college degree is
GROWING.
SOURCE

34. College is the new high school.

35. And informal education is
more accessible than ever.

36. AcademicEarth.org posts
courses online for FREE
from top universities like
Stanford & MIT.

37. There’s no longer an excuse
not to know how.

38. to where you live.
Competition for jobs
is no longer limited

39. It is commonplace to hire vendors and
contractors from across the planet.

40. One in four organizations plans to
increase spending on outsourcing
by 25% or more this year.
SOURCE

41. According to interviews
with more than 500
executives, the key
benefit of outsourcing
isn’t saving money…

42. ...it’s innovation.
SOURCE

43. In some cases, your competition isn’t even
limited to other individuals.

44. “Crowdsource”
To split a task into smaller pieces and unleash
it to millions of people around the world.

45. Wikipedia’s 13 million articles are all
written and maintained by the crowd.

46. Threadless™ finds t-shirt designs
to sell from submission and
voting by the crowd.

47. Consider ReCAPTCHA™

48. Multiple projects are
currently digitizing
physical books, but
computers can’t
always decipher the
scanned text.

49. The first word verifies
that you’re human.
The second word is
from a scanned book
that a computer
could not read.
ReCAPTCHA works
by presenting people
with two words to
retype when they go to
create a new account
on a partner website.

50. Roughly 200 million
ReCAPTCHA puzzles are solved each day.

51. Each one takes about 10 seconds,
but in total they amount to over
150,000 hours
of work every day.

52. To stay employed in the
workplace of the future
stand out.
you need to

53. ON DEMAND
The future of work is…

54. guarantee you
No one is going to
a lifetime career.

55. Many businesses are choosing
contract relationships
over hiring new employees.

56. The word “career”
is as outdated as the word “typewriter”.

57. Project teams at work
are beginning to resemble
movie production teams.

58. Independent individuals
with unique talents get
together to work on a
company’s project.

59. At the end, they all go their
separate ways. They might
work together again in the
future. They might not.

60. “Virtual Teams”
A group of individuals who work across time,
space, and organizational boundaries using
collaboration technology.

61. In 2006, more than 28 million Americans
worked in a virtual team at least one
day per month.
SOURCE

62. By 2010, that number will
grow to over 100 Million.
SOURCE

63. Although home is still the most common
location, millions of virtual team members
work from just about anywhere.

64. It’s a whole
new paradigm.

65. So why should you consider this?

66. Because in the future of work…
Transparent Flat Competitive On Demand

67. more freedom and power
than ever before.
Individuals will have

68. Your earning potential
will be based on merit,
not location.

69. Employers will have access to
a larger and more skilled workforce.

70. YOU
the future of work is…
Because,

71. Changing How the World Works.
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