The document discusses 5 trends in the future of work: 1) Careers will be non-traditional with frequent re-careering and multi-careering. 2) Cubicles will be replaced by tele-cubicles and tele-immersion workspaces. 3) Conference calls will be replaced by teleportation technology enabling remote demos and meetings. 4) Traditional desks will be replaced by portable virtual command centers like spaceship helms or the Star Trek bridge. 5) Employees will be replaced by free agents and remote talent sourcing through e-talent scouting on peer-to-peer networks. The future of work is predicted to involve highly virtualized and mobile workspaces with robots and AI replacing many traditional

1. BEYOND THE OFFICE
FUTURE WORK, 2006, WITI conference, San
Diego
Joyce Schwarz, JCOM
Email: futurejobs@aol.com

2. WORKPLACE OF THE FUTURE
*Robots *Verbots *Avatars *IA, *AI *Holograms &
MORE….is the future STAR TREK or STAR WARS OR
MINORITY REPORT? “in the years ahead more than
90 million jobs in a labor force of 124 million are
vulnerable to replacement by machines” Jeremy Rifkin
THE END OF WORK

3. FUTUREWORK: 5 TRENDS
*THE WORD CAREER IS OUTDATED!
“…the reality is the old-fashioned notion of a career
doesn’t exist anymore. In fact, the word “career” is as
outdated as the word “typewriter”. The truths evident
are: Re-Careering and Multi-Careering, Faith
Popcorn, author CLICKING.

4. TREND #2
• CUBICLE IS DEAD WOOD ….instead
think *Tele-cubicle *Tele-Immersion!

5. Trend #3 End of Conference
calls/start of TELEPORT~
• Teleportec Inc. enables personnel to demo
products and link to remote offices. Teleris Ltd.
Features a virtual GlobalTable…new way for F2F
meetings…videoconferencing $7.6 Billion
annually…..

6. TREND #4 Desk Is “beamed-up”
• THE WORD DESK IS OUT! THINK
ABOUT THE HELM OF A SPACESHIP –
command center….or the “Bridge” on Star-
Trek….and think about it all being portable
and virtual!

7. Trend #5 END OF
EMPLOYEES: RISE OF FREE
AGENTS:
• RISE OF e-TALENT…..
• and e-Talent Scout…and e-provider
• P2P and M2M and M2P

8. CONTACT INFO:
• Joyce A. Schwarz, FUTUREWORK,
www.futurework.com, email:
futurejobs@aol.com.
• Joyce A. Schwarz, JCOM,
marketing/branding, biz-dev
www.joycecom.com, 310-822-3119,
joycecom@aol.com