The document discusses trends that will impact the future workforce based on a workshop discussing the topic. Key points include:
1) Technological advances like automation and AI will shift many jobs to require more human skills like complex problem-solving, while connectivity will widen the global talent pool.
2) Demographics show population growth stabilizing around 9.6-12.3 billion by 2100, shifting more workers internationally to support innovation.
3) HR and recruiting roles will focus more on higher-level analysis and strategy as tools handle routine tasks, while personal branding grows in importance for career navigation.
4) Work-life balance may be challenging as lines blur between personal and professional identities online, requiring laws
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develop a white paper, “Redefining Office
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of three key global megatrends – demographic shift,
flexible workstyle and technological transformation.
This white paper is intended to serve as a reference point for business leaders and decision makers around the world to
guide them towards adopting the latest office communication technologies applicable for their relevant industries.
Rather than being a physical place where a person works all the time, Frost & Sullivan envisions the futuristic
office to be more of a meeting area where people go to generate fresh ideas, create new action plans or
make important decisions – leading to a boundary-less workplace.
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Redefining Office Communication: Technology and Socio-Demographic Convergence...Felicia Woo
Frost & Sullivan recently collaborated with Ricoh Group to
develop a white paper, “Redefining Office
Communication”, to further demonstrate the implications
of three key global megatrends – demographic shift,
flexible workstyle and technological transformation.
This white paper is intended to serve as a reference point for business leaders and decision makers around the world to
guide them towards adopting the latest office communication technologies applicable for their relevant industries.
Rather than being a physical place where a person works all the time, Frost & Sullivan envisions the futuristic
office to be more of a meeting area where people go to generate fresh ideas, create new action plans or
make important decisions – leading to a boundary-less workplace.
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Technology trend awareness as a skill refers to being mindful of the technology that is recently becoming popular and is readily accepted in the market or industry.
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Read this volume of our newsletter that takes you through a seamless journey of disruption where you relate better with and feel the pulse of niche technologies.
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Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution, which has been introduced by German government in 2012 [1], which is depends on the integration of different categories of electrical and electronic devices, from personal computers, smartphones, smartwatches, machinery robotics and enterprise resource planning systems, which can be integrated together and communicated with others to analyse the optimal criteria of potential solutions for improving productivity via internet [2]. however, the requirements of the new technology will force the old technology to retired. which will will force the big companies to change the specification of the industrial components to keep up with the latest processors. Ultimately, the goal of Industry 4.0 is to produce smarter and resource-efficient factories which are more productive and competitive says Mika Lomax [3]. Which mean that the Devices are getting smarter. "Not only does the IIoT enable real-time monitoring on smartphones and via emails, but, in plants, everyone has LCDs (liquid-crystal displays), TV screens and marquees showing the production staff useful information," says Kumar. "The technology in the modern HMI, including drivers and connectivity, is moving to message displays and marquees. This will enable programming and monitoring in these smart displays. Technology is pushing PLC and HMI functionality to text displays and it will all be connected to the IIoT."[4] The characteristics of high-technology industries include steady order quantities, standardized product features and high product value [3].
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Read this volume of our newsletter that takes you through a seamless journey of disruption where you relate better with and feel the pulse of niche technologies.
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Pwc workforce of the future the competing forces shaping 2030Peerasak C.
Foreword
We are living through a fundamental transformation in the way we work. Automation and
‘thinking machines’ are replacing human tasks and jobs, and changing the skills that organisations
are looking for in their people. These momentous changes raise huge organisational, talent and
HR challenges – at a time when business leaders are already wrestling with unprecedented risks,
disruption and political and societal upheaval.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces that HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
**Please note this presentation was developed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so although we don’t address it directly, we do speak to the innovations and solutions that exist beyond it. We hope this knowledge opens a window of hope and possibility to what awaits us on the road ahead.
You are your content - Being here, now: State of content 2017Accenture Insurance
Our relationship to content has been transformed. So many aspects of our lives, big and small, are lived online. From education to recreation, one is hard-pressed to identify aspects of modern life not changed by digital content. This second annual study from Accenture Interactive surveyed over 1,000 executives from 14 countries and 18 industries to understand this shifting paradigm, and to help organizations respond.
Content must be a vital expression of an organizations purpose, and true to its lifeblood. Content is how the organization expresses itself. In this hyper-connected age, You are Your Content, it is the voice of your organization. And so, it is no surprise that organizations are beginning to want to own that voice, building new in-house capabilities, innovating in distribution channels, focusing on quality, and establishing stewardship at the most senior levels of the organization in order to be everywhere for their audiences.
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5 REASONS our Children are about to miss out on the Greatest opportunity in the world.
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Seizing opportunities with AI in the cognitive economybaghdad
Citizens increasingly expect that they own their
own data.2
They also expect heightened service
standards and stewardship from Government.
Yes, most discussions around AI center around
the “potentially devastating negative use
cases and unintended consequences” but
leaders recognize that technology-inspired,
society-scale innovation now fueled by data
is (again) changing life as we know it.
Leaders also see similar patterns from the early
internet days and not only want to transform
the business of government, but to also enable
citizens to navigate the transition well and position
to seize the exponential opportunities of the
new era. All are now asking critical questions
regarding data and its nascent foundations:
• Who owns the ‘data’ in big data?
• Where does big data stop and privacy start?
The digital workplace is a new imperative for the public sector. The same factors that are propelling digital transformation in the private sector are also producing severe disruption in the public sphere.
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August 2015
What Will a
Future Workforce
Look Like?
2. Sponsored by
1. Introduction
2. Technological Factors:
2.1. The fast pace of technological innovation
2.2. Automation is everywhere: does that threaten
humanity itself
2.3. Everything is connected, virtual, intelligent
and in the cloud
3. Demographic Factors:
Changing dynamics of global population growth
4. Impact on HR / Recruitment
4.1. Future of Recruiting tools and technology
4.2. The Currency of
5. The future of work?
How to navigate the future of work /
life balance v work - life integration
6. Key Takeaways
Contents:
Future of Talent: Trends 2
3. Future of Talent: Trends 23
What Will a Future
Workforce Look Like?
A period of prosperity and promise, one where,
for the time in history, the world and vast
amounts of human knowledge was suddenly
accessible in the palm of our hands. Technology
has been gradually changing the way we live for
nearly two decades, with innovation having as
much impact in on our careers as personal lives.
What does the continual pace of innovation
mean for the future workforce? What impact
will that have on our careers in the years and
decades to come?
In London, on 9 March 2015, a group of
progressive-minded HR and recruitment industry
experts and professionals met to discuss the
future of the workforce at the #HRU Future of
Talent Workshop.
This white paper summarizes some of the key
insights and concerns raised, and what that
means for recruiters and HR professional around
the world, now and in the future.
Introduction
about an unprecedented period of innovation. A digital revolution, one which
changed billions of lives.
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4. 2. Technological Factors
Despite the seemingly ubiquitous nature
of Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube,
Snapchat and WhatsApp, digital adoption is far
from universal. Even in developed countries,
there is still tens of millions of consumers and
businesses with limited or no access to digital
services.
Achieving a near universal level of digital
inclusion is still a challenge for governments,
with from the UK estimating that 21% of
the population lack basic digital skills. Research
by Lloyds Bank, a large UK high street bank, has
found that 23% of SME’s and 58% of charities
are in a similar position.
With internet.org, led by Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg, as well as other government and
NGO-supported projects around the world, the
aim is to connect the other two out of three
people worldwide without Internet access.
Depending on economic development and the
pace of innovation, this dream could be achieved
within a century.
What does this mean for a future workforce?
Digital connectivity will be ubiquitous,
regardless of a countries level of economic
development, which will widen the talent pool
for outsourced operations.
2.1.The fast pace of technological innovation
What could happen if Ar Intelligence (AI)
started to think for itself? What would happen if
our creations turned on the human
race? Frankensteins monster with a big data
brain and the strength of Wolverine.
With popular movies such as Ex Machina, I,
Robot, RoboCop, Bicentennial Man and dozens of
others painting various outcomes for a
world where human and AI attempt to co-exist.
Sometimes successfully, other times, not so
much.
Some of the minds of our generation,
including Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk
and Stephen Hawking have all warned of the
dangers. Stanford University has conducted a
100 year study, concluding that “we could one
day lose control of AI systems via the rise of
superintelligences that do not act in accordance
with human wishes – and that such powerful
systems would threaten humanity.”
What does this mean for a future workforce?
With AI and big data playing more of a role in
production and services, the “human element”
will shift to the higher end of the value chain,
especially for knowledge economy workers.
2.2.Automation is everywhere: does that threaten humanity itself?
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5. 2.Technological Factors Continued
Relatively speaking, this is still early days for
a hyperconnected, fully digital world. It could
easily take a century to achieve universal digital
adoption, providing a hostile race of
Intelligences don’t destroy humanity in the
meantime.
At this point, we seem to have more questions
than answers. But these are questions worth
asking:
• Should we expect a backlash against too much
connectivity?
• Could greater transparency reduce crime?
• Is there a risk we could automate too much of
our lives and work?
What does this mean for a future workforce?
Whether to hire someone used to be based
on gut decisions, how well a recruiter / HR
professional got along with a candidate. The
problem with this approach is it means basing
one of the most important - and for most
businesses - most expensive decisions on a
feeling. One human to another. These days, this
is how
• Pre-employment assessments help companies
understand candidates actual competencies:
what they can do, rather than what they claim
they can do.
• With social media sentiment analysis,you can
track when potential candidates (both active
and the passively active) are looking for new
jobs, then send them targeted social media
campaigns.
• Employers can from performance
tracking software, which allows them to gain
an understanding of an employee’s success
rate in their last role, where applicable.
However, data can go too far. One company in
California is being sued by a former employer
after they her for disabling an app on her
phone that was tracking her every move outside
hours.
The law has to draw lines in the sand when
employers and technology invade personal
privacy, but there’s still more data employers
would gain value from when it comes to new
hires and staff performance.
2.3. Everything is connected, virtual, intelligent and in the cloud
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3. Demographic Factors
There was a consensus that the world’s
population would hit 9 billion in 20 years, then
start to decline.
Research published in 2014, led by Professor
Adrian Raftery at the University of Washington,
has overturned that consensus. Academics,
governments and the UN are now 80% certain
that as of 2100 the global population will be
between 9.6 and 12.3 billion people. The chance
of an expected population peak, followed by
a decline is almost non-existent, with a 70%
chance of continued rising after 2100.
What does this mean for a future workforce?
Ageing populations in Western Europe, North
America, Australasia and Japan could result in
a global population shift, necessary to support
continued innovation in the more mature
developed economies. How companies and
governments share resources and deal with
immigration will become a key issue for inter-
regional relations, which in turn could impact
the workforce of the future.
Changing dynamics of global population growth
Academics, governments and
the UN are now 80% certain
that as of 2100 the global
population will be between
9.6 and 12.3 billion people
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7. 4. Impact on HR / Recruitment
Resumes and human intuition - that gut feeling
when you meet someone (which according
to science happens in the blink of an eye,
literally) are being phased out in favour of data-
backed recruitment solutions.
HR and recruitment will become a value-
added skill, much like accounting. According
to Software Advice research, as of 2022 there
will be a 22% and 8% growth in HR Manager
roles HR specialist roles, respectively. Software
isn’t eating recruitment: software is making
recruitment professionals more valuable at all
levels of the corporate world.
According to the report:
• HR job titles are a more business-
focused HR department.
• Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and
Senior Professional in Human Resources
(SPHR) are the most desired
• Annual compensation for HR jobs is $60,000—
well above the national average in the US.
What does this mean for a future workforce?
Along with other knowledge economy roles,
HR and recruitment professionals will spend
more time on higher value tasks and less time
pushing paper. Analysis and interpretation of big
data inputs, aligned with business objectives,
will become core job requirements during the
next decade.
4.1. Future of Recruiting tools and technology
Software isn’t eating recruitment:
software is making recruitment
professionals more valuable
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Future of Talent: Trends 7
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4. Impact on HR / Recruitment
Continued
Ever since the recession there’s been a greater
burden on employees to act like entrepreneurs.
Steady progression can no longer be relied on.
LinkedIn Co-founder & Chairman, Reid Hoffman
co-authored The Start-Up of You to help people
navigate the evolving rules of employment.
Personal and professional branding has
never been more important, especially for
professionals, executives and knowledge
economy workers. With the demise of long-term
careers (many now stay with companies for only
4.4 years), reputations and professional victories
should be displayed for the outside world,
wherever applicable.
Alongside the value of professional branding,
- which is also something we can
cultivate ourselves (with blogs,Twitter, Medium,
LinkedIn) - will become a more important factor
in hiring decisions.
This could include:
• Network value: including reach and Klout
scores.
connections: who do you know who
might be useful for your employer?
• Sector what currency does your
reputation have within your sector?
All of this was important long before the
Internet. The corridors of power in every
civilisation in the world have functioned this
way for millennia, and the business community
is no different. This is, however, the time we
can quantify online which is why it
will play a bigger role in hiring decisions in the
future.
What does this mean for a future workforce?
Personal employee branding will become a key
part of companies social media efforts, which
means digital could count towards
whether someone is offered a new job.
Future of Talent: Trends 8
9. 5.The future of work?
Much like the debate around the future of
personal privacy and whether we have already
given too much of ourselves to the Internet,
work / life balance is now under threat like Deer
during hunting season in Michigan.
Molly Flatt, a social media consultant and editor
for The Memo, wrote a great article on Medium
about the issue of too much digital connectivity.
She wonders whether we can true balance
again, asking if throwing her hardware away is
the right solution?
“That would be an escape, not an answer. I don’t
want to be a dinosaur, but nor do I want to be a
drone.
I still believe that social technologies can be
an incredible force for good, not to mention
fun. But I also think it’s time we started looking
seriously, and publicly, at the unsustainable
assumptions that underpin them, and the toll
they take on our identities and our world.”
Molly is not alone.
The need for personal and professional digital
branding means the lines blur between the two.
People buy into people, not products or services,
so we need to sell a little - or a lot - of ourselves
to survive and thrive in our careers. As a result
the lines between online, personal and
professional blur further: life mirrors digital and
digital mirrors life.
What does this mean for a future workforce?
There’s no escaping the ubiquitousness of
digital platforms within our lives, but that
doesn’t mean everyone wants to be connected
all of the time. Laws might need to evolve to
protect those who don’t want to participate
so that future employees aren’t excluded
from job opportunities due to personal digital
preferences.
How to navigate the future of work / life
balance v work - life integration
Future of Talent: Trends 9
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10. 6. Key Takeaways for
the Future Workforce
• In 2100, the global population will be between 9.6 and 12.3 billion
people.
• Some o
poses a threat to humanity: is this the one line in the sand we must
draw with technology?
• Digital technology and social media platforms will reach universal,
global levels of saturation, with corresponding impacts on our
personal and professional lives; for some this, means a further
breaking down of the barriers between the two.
• e scores could be a factor in future recruitment
decisions although laws may be needed to ensure those who retreat
away from an over-saturation of technology aren’t excluded from the
jobs market.
• In many knowledge economy roles, including HR & recruitment, the
impact of big data means the input of professionals will shift to the
higher end of the value scale.
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