Consider this…

Ten years ago there were
no social networks.

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

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

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Who knows what jobs will
exist twenty years from now?

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

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

What is the FUTURE OF
WORK?

The future of work is…
TRANSPARENT

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

In the past, productivity was
di cult (if not impossible) to measure.

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

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

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

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

The future of work is…
FLAT

No one is going to
complain about their commute.

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

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

“Work” used to be considered
a place.

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

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

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

The world is now flat.

o rganization The world is
now flat.

Call centers used to be
massive o ces built in rural areas or countries like India.

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

In the future, location will
not matter.

The future of work is…
COMPETITIVE

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

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w it h a 29% Amer g e degree is co lle GROWING. 13.1% 15.5% 1990 2000 2007 SOURCE

College is the new high
school.

And informal education is more
accessible than ever.

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

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

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

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

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

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

...it’s innovation.
SOURCE

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

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

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

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

Consider ReCAPTCHA™

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

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

Roughly 200 million ReCAPTCHA puzzles
are solved each day.

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

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The future of work is…
ON DEMAND

No one is going to
guarantee you a lifetime career.

Many businesses are choosing contract
relationships over hiring new employees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s a whole
new paradigm.

So why should you consider
this?

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

Individuals will have more freedom
and power than ever before.

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

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

Because, the future of work
is… YOU

Changing How the World Works.
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