How Workforce Management magazine predicts glowing future for ki work

New year's the time for 'experts' to make predictions. They're all pretty gloomy. There's no debate as to whether the cup's half full or half empty. Instead optimists hope for a refill in 2010 while pessimists or, perhaps, realists expect a longer wait. That probably makes 'sobriety' one of the key words for 2009.

Fortunately ki work offers a home-brew alternative to fill your own (virtual) glass or better to share a pitcher. Who wants to work (or drink) alone? The good news is ki work's collaborative, work-sharing, guerrilla outsourcing model is finding friends everywhere, even if they don't know it yet.

The leading HR magazine and website Workforce Management lists 60 top predictions, most of which are in total accord with the ki work model. In fact there's so little to contradict the ki work philosophy that it makes my job hard. 

Normally I'd point readers to some small nuggets that back up my argument. This time I can only recommend you read the whole article. Believe me, it's fascinating.

Indeed, the one key prediction that writer Ed Frauenheim picks out to introduce the article is: "There will be more emphasis on collaboration and using technology to support it." Well, of course.

Another couple of quotes I'd pick out are:

"The talent market will look a lot more like eBay than Monster or Yahoo HotJobs."

And:

"The concept of offshoring will cease to exist. Talent will exist globally and companies will go where the talent is. The purpose will not be to get the lowest-cost labor, but rather the highest-quality talent."

There are a couple of key points where I think the article is fundamentally wrong because it assumes most conventional business organizations will be agile enough to cope with the seismic changes that are taking place. I believe that most current business models will prove unsustainable. (But then if I was writing an article for HR professionals I'm not sure if I'd want to be the one to tell them their profession was on the verge of being swept aside by the tide of history.)

My other disagreement with the Workforce Management article is it's postulating these changes ten years away in 2018.  The dramatic shifts in the way we work are going to happen an awful lot sooner than that. Sign up free for ki work and see how you can be part of the work revolution.

Comments

[Ron Hayes, C.P.M.]

I was thinking about the current economic situation and the number of under utilized (laid off, unemployed, work at home) skilled office-type workers in many fields not just accounting, data entry, telemarketing, but in purchasing (spend analyis, commodity strategies, negotiation plans, contractual agreements, problem solving, supplier diversity, supplier coaching, etc), engineering, cost accounting, sales, marketing, etc etc etc.
What I wonder is when and how companies large and small will see the wasted resources and decide to be innovators in defining a new type of work at home?
When I look in ki work just now, I think there are around 3000 offers and less than 4 actual work projects !!
Where are the projects? Who is responsible for marketing the resource to viable corporations?

I still think this site is better than many pseudo sites (sohojobs comes to mind) in its professionalism and approach.

How do we get grow the types and quantity of projects?

Thank you

Ron Hayes