சமீபத்தில் வெளியான PWCன் Workforce of the future 2030ன் அறிக்கையில் தென்பட்ட ஈர்ப்பான விடயங்கள் மற்றும் கேள்விகள் சில..

• Business fragmentation: Small is powerful. Large businesses lose their dominance as customers seek relevance and organisations find scale a burden rather than a benefit. Social bubbles and affinity groups take on a new importance. Many could not exist without digital platforms.
• Individualism: Where ‘me first’ rules. A focus on individual wants; a response to the infinite choices available to consumers.
• Corporate integration: Big business rules all. Companies get bigger and more influential – the biggest have more sway than some nations. Brands span many business areas.
• Collectivism: Fairness and equality dominates. The common good prevails over personal preference, e.g. collective responsibility for the environment, social good and ‘fairness’ over individual interest.
• Ideas developed outside business hours by colleagues of the same company remain its intellectual property ? (even if the workers are not permanent employees)
• Today’s winning business could be tomorrow’s court case
• Near-zero employee organisations are the norm. Organisations of a few pivotal people use technology, the supply chain and intellectual property, rather than human effort and physical assets, to generate value.
• The commercial value of learning takes precedence; a university degree is seen as less valuable than specific and relevant skills or experience.
• HR does not exist as a separate function and entrepreneurial leaders rely on outsourced services and automation for people processes.
• A new breed of elite super-workers emerges.
•  The idea of a ‘job for life’ returns to the workplace lexicon.
• Organisations have to balance the trade-off between short-term financial and long-term societal good.
• A corporate employer separates the haves from the have nots; companies provide many of the services, from children’s education, eldercare and healthcare, previously provided by the state.
• The Chief People Officer (CPO) is a powerful and influential figure, sometimes known as the ‘Head of People and Productivity’, and who sits on the board.
• Society divides into those with a corporate career – and those who don’t have access to the same level of financial rewards, healthcare and benefits.
• The high ethical standards to which companies are held has cascaded down to employees; conduct and ethics are taken very seriously at work and performance is assessed against a wide range of measures, including how efficiently workers manage their travel and resources.
• ‘Invisible Technology’ such as AI-driven ‘back office’ functional support and the automation of tasks that are damaging or impossible for humans, still pervades.
• Workers feel the strongest loyalty not to their employer, but to people with the same skills or cause.
• Ethical and transparent supply chain management is critical and penalties apply all along the chain for non-compliance.
• Those organisations and individuals that understand potential futures, and what each might mean for them, and plan ahead, will be the best prepared to succeed.