This document discusses how the concept of work is changing and how organizations and individuals can prepare. It notes that traditional offices and email communication are declining as mobile technologies, social networks, and flexibility become more prominent. Fewer teenagers email daily, instead preferring texting, instant messaging, and social media. The document raises discussion questions on how the format of work may change in the next 10 years and how to prepare the next generation. It suggests organizations need to adapt to remain relevant in the new world of work while still addressing current needs.

1. Bringing HR, Technology, and Collaboration Into the
Next Century
Trish McFarlane
Steve Boese

2. Traditional Conferences

4. Unconferences

6. Something in the middle

8. HRevolution – History
Created in 2009
Started by a Tweet
Response to high cost of
traditional conferences
Community driven
Loosely structured

9. Today’s HRevolution-style topic:
Your Kid Will Never
Work in an Office

11. Drivers
Mobile
Social Networks
Communication
Globalization
Flexibility
Economics

13. In their own words – how smartphone
users describe their phones
Source – Pew Internet and American Life Project

15. “'If you want to know what people like us will do tomorrow. you look
at what teenagers are doing today. And the latest figures say that
only 11% of teenagers email daily.' Email is the past. Texting, IM and
Facebook are the future.”
- Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg

16. So how should
we prepare our kids?
Source – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce

17. Source – Economist.com , Sept 10 2011

21. Discussion Questions:
1. How do you see the format, organization, and concept of ‘work’
changing in the next 10 years? What are the implications?
2. How can we prepare the next generation for these changes? Or will
the changes in technology, connectivity, and access to information
simply act as change agents?
3. What can organizations do to prepare for and take advantage of
these changes? Where are organizations falling behind?
4. How can an organization or an individual balance planning for the
new world of work with the short-term challenges and needs of
simply running their business?
5. How do we need to adapt or create new workplace or personal
technologies to best take advantage of all of these changes?

22. • Thank You!
• Trish McFarlane – www.hrringleader.com
• Steve Boese – www.steveboese.squarespace.com
• www.thehrevolution.org