The changes could start with the office remembering who sits where, what temperature they like, how soft they like the light to be. Also, there will be a lot of virtual reality, so you'll do almost no traveling but meet virtually. People you are meeting with actually appear in your office.
We'll even have employees who will live on campus, supervising different tasks. That will be needed because we're becoming a global society in which people, in different parts of the world, can work on a project 24 hours a day. So your workplace will become more of a 24-hour kind of a space.
Instead of manufacturing products, we'll be manufacturing ideas. We're going to survey and select people for jobs based on whether they have a good imagination and are creative and can come up with new ideas.
There will be robots in the work place. But many of the key technologies needed to make wide use of robots possible are already here. Carnegie Mellon University has already developed the world's first robot receptionist, with its ability to detect motion and greet visitors. Others have developed robots that could complete simple tasks like fetching documents or coffee. And, of course, more robots will be used in manufacturing.
The home will be the office. Or, you'll live right next to your office. And your employer will be taking care of all your personal and physical needs to increase your productivity. Your kids, your dinner, your clothing needs, your books, your movies would all be provided through your company.
I believe the future workplace will be different: 1)ways of communication will no longer involve phone usage, 2)individuals will no longer have microsoft programs to use in daily business activities-everything will be web-based, 3)there will be a higher variety of things availiable online like man power that will eliminate the need for employees. I think the knowledge of computers and web programs will be very important in the future and those who don't have the knowledge will not be able to communicate in the business world in the future.
Employers will soon monitor everything from workers' stress to cholesterol levels -- and help them deal with such problems in order to increase productivity. Actually, researchers are already developing many of these technologies -- such as chairs equipped with sensors that measure your level of fatigue or attention.
Sound like Big Brother? In fact, personal privacy won't exist
The future of work is going to be very different for any individual depending on education, location, and willingness to take personal responsibility. A worker's needs will evolve over time
It is easy to see the future of work for the self-actualized will be different than for those in survival mode. Companies that master the relationship side of the equation will have the brightest future.
It's actually pretty scary to know that someone who knows "nothing" about you will know "everything" about you. I don't like the fact of losing personal privacy.
there will be 2.7 workers to every non-worker by 2020 - compared to a 4:1 ration in 1990
At present, there are some 17 million people in the UK aged 20-40, and 14 million between 45 and 65. By 2020, the younger group is expected to shrink to 16 million, while the older group will grow to 17 million, as the baby boomer generation matures
8% of the workforce will be from an ethnic minority by 2030
1 in 5 UK workers will be mothers
25% of all families will be single parent families
up to 10 million people will have some responsibility in caring for elderly relatives.
The long hours culture was well in evidence in the survey, with some 30% of people working more than 40 hours per week, tow thirds of whom are men. 4% of respondents worked over 60 hours per week. - mostly in agriculture, manufacturing and construction. Overall, managers and skilled manual workers are the most likely to work longer hours.
In the next decade or so, the U.S. workplace will be transformed with an explosion of flexible work schedules and a host of technologies that will make work tasks easier.
That’s right, by 2020, there will be more 55-plus workers grinding away than at any other time in our history. As a result, labor experts foresee a rush by the nation’s businesses to accommodate the aging workforce.
But it won’t all be milk and honey. Generational differences in the workplace are expected to rise, there will be unprecedented shortages in many industries as large proportions of the work force retires, and we may also see more workers getting sick on the job, with a possible rise in strokes and heart attacks as they age.
In 2005, about 24 million or 17 percent of all adult U.S. workers were over 55, compared with a projected 38 million or 24 percent by the year 2017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 65-plus work force will almost double to 10 million, or 6.4 percent of the total, in 10 years; and those toiling away at age 75 and over will make up about 1.2 percent of the workforce, or 2 million strong.
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http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=15811
Website talking about the different types of "spaces" and how they effect the work arena.
The changes could start with the office remembering who sits where, what temperature they like, how soft they like the light to be. Also, there will be a lot of virtual reality, so you'll do almost no traveling but meet virtually. People you are meeting with actually appear in your office.
We'll even have employees who will live on campus, supervising different tasks. That will be needed because we're becoming a global society in which people, in different parts of the world, can work on a project 24 hours a day. So your workplace will become more of a 24-hour kind of a space.
Instead of manufacturing products, we'll be manufacturing ideas. We're going to survey and select people for jobs based on whether they have a good imagination and are creative and can come up with new ideas.
There will be robots in the work place. But many of the key technologies needed to make wide use of robots possible are already here. Carnegie Mellon University has already developed the world's first robot receptionist, with its ability to detect motion and greet visitors. Others have developed robots that could complete simple tasks like fetching documents or coffee. And, of course, more robots will be used in manufacturing.
The home will be the office. Or, you'll live right next to your office. And your employer will be taking care of all your personal and physical needs to increase your productivity. Your kids, your dinner, your clothing needs, your books, your movies would all be provided through your company.
I believe the future workplace will be different: 1)ways of communication will no longer involve phone usage, 2)individuals will no longer have microsoft programs to use in daily business activities-everything will be web-based, 3)there will be a higher variety of things availiable online like man power that will eliminate the need for employees. I think the knowledge of computers and web programs will be very important in the future and those who don't have the knowledge will not be able to communicate in the business world in the future.
Employers will soon monitor everything from workers' stress to cholesterol levels -- and help them deal with such problems in order to increase productivity. Actually, researchers are already developing many of these technologies -- such as chairs equipped with sensors that measure your level of fatigue or attention.
Sound like Big Brother? In fact, personal privacy won't exist
The future of work is going to be very different for any individual depending on education, location, and willingness to take personal responsibility. A worker's needs will evolve over time
It is easy to see the future of work for the self-actualized will be different than for those in survival mode. Companies that master the relationship side of the equation will have the brightest future.
More of a collective and comfortable conscious? Sounds interesting...
It's actually pretty scary to know that someone who knows "nothing" about you will know "everything" about you. I don't like the fact of losing personal privacy.
the workforce is set to grow by 300,000 between 2004 and 2010.
Over 80% of this growth is expected to be women
UK population
there will be 2.7 workers to every non-worker by 2020 - compared to a 4:1 ration in 1990
At present, there are some 17 million people in the UK aged 20-40, and 14 million between 45 and 65. By 2020, the younger group is expected to shrink to 16 million, while the older group will grow to 17 million, as the baby boomer generation matures
8% of the workforce will be from an ethnic minority by 2030
1 in 5 UK workers will be mothers
25% of all families will be single parent families
up to 10 million people will have some responsibility in caring for elderly relatives.
US popualtion
The long hours culture was well in evidence in the survey, with some 30% of people working more than 40 hours per week, tow thirds of whom are men. 4% of respondents worked over 60 hours per week. - mostly in agriculture, manufacturing and construction. Overall, managers and skilled manual workers are the most likely to work longer hours.
http://www.livescience.com/technology/051223_future_office.html
Studies show that access to daylight improves worker productivity by 5 percent to 25 percent.
As the future changes, how will that effect the value of a dollar? Or will it?
In the next decade or so, the U.S. workplace will be transformed with an explosion of flexible work schedules and a host of technologies that will make work tasks easier.
That’s right, by 2020, there will be more 55-plus workers grinding away than at any other time in our history. As a result, labor experts foresee a rush by the nation’s businesses to accommodate the aging workforce.
But it won’t all be milk and honey. Generational differences in the workplace are expected to rise, there will be unprecedented shortages in many industries as large proportions of the work force retires, and we may also see more workers getting sick on the job, with a possible rise in strokes and heart attacks as they age.
In 2005, about 24 million or 17 percent of all adult U.S. workers were over 55, compared with a projected 38 million or 24 percent by the year 2017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 65-plus work force will almost double to 10 million, or 6.4 percent of the total, in 10 years; and those toiling away at age 75 and over will make up about 1.2 percent of the workforce, or 2 million strong.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG164.pdf
very good resouce
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