(January 5, 2009)MotivationConnect365 provides a very extensive series of listings regarding the Workforce in 2009.
It is called the Top Ten Workplace Predictions for 2009 and Beyond but it is 9 or 10 items in each of the following 6 categories:
Structure of Work
Global Business
Work and Society
Recruiting and Workforce Development
Strategic Role of HR
Compensation and Benefits
We have provided a sampling of the lists below. The complete series can be found at
Motivation Connect 365
STRUCTURE OF WORK 1 There will be an increased focus on I-infrastructures - such as social networks and wikis - to support building strong relationships and collaboration.
2 The structure of work will become more adaptive, more informal and less focused on formal structure and static design solutions.
3 (tie) "Agile" organizations will have survived rampant aggregation and consolidation, and all organizations will be developing greater agility.
4 (tie)There will be greater demands on HR professionals to be businesspeople, with competencies in finding and retaining talent and in managing contract and freelance workers.
5 Organizations will have the ability to personalize the employee value proposition, helping employees find value in the work they do based on how they interact with the company. Some employees will be full time and long term. Others will be short term and part time.
6 Flexibility will no longer be optional. Employees will expect to utilize both short- and long-term flexibility options to meet their needs.
7 The most successful organizations will have a performance culture or meritocracy and will demand extraordinary effort from those who wish to achieve leadership positions.
8 Technological progress and the evolution of virtual networks and social vetting - that is, using networks such as LinkedIn to establish trust and research people's backgrounds - will increase workplace flexibility. The trends will increase the use of emerging work structures that involve engaging professional and social networks through means such as "crowd sourcing' - when an organization invites the public to help solve a problem.
9 Organizations will work across internal and external boundaries, connecting and customizing internal actions to external customers and investors.
10 The talent market will look a lot I more like eBay than Monster or Yahoo HotJobs. Candidates will put themselves up for bid for specific work, hours and duration and will name their minimum price, including benefits and perks. Employers will contract with each worker for what will be delivered.
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