THE FUTURE OF WORK

BUSINESS WEEK (2007) 8/21 TO 27

A random sample of 2000 executives and middle managers suggest that

work in the future should be pretty rosy. However, when American households are sampled the look ahead seems gloomy. Even those hold a BA degree seem down right blue and many feel their degree was not worth it. the work appears to be fast paced and changeable. You may have to move many times including moving to other countries. So there will be stresses on the family .Thus singles and marrieds with many talents and no or few children will be given top priority.

The CEO's of the future must smart, an ambassador,deal maker, conductor, and casting agent.

Workers will not work in cubicles but on an open floor. Workers will be core or temps. Each gets a tremendous degree of differences in benefits. Over half grads and post grads are women and they will be accommodated. You may become on a first name basis with an Indian from India.

Work schedules could be served on a 24/7 basis, Technology could be shared.

Temp workforce must be flexible, just in time, and get few but personal benefits. No one gets

defined defined pensions.

The majority of workers will be temps. It is best to brand yourself. Have your own web site with your own personal positive characteristics. Income appears to be stagnant in adjusted dollars.

Workers will be increasingly connected to other workers by technology. Offices will be constructed of materials that do not encourage illness. Lighting will change to improve productivity.

Many corporations will be located near airports, There will be numerous fatigue fighters from short naps to uppers of a mild variety. You may live in Texas, but work in Canada.

Think of work as the brave new rat race.

THE WEEK (2007) 8/17

Celebrity rehab is like a posh hotel. The outcomes are debatable. The main thing about

rehab is the following: do the addicts understand that not changing means an early death for themselves and others. Have they hit bottom yet?

NEWSWEEK (2007) 8/20-27.

LEVY) 41-46  FACEBOOK and MYSPACE are growing up and some of the growing pains are beginning oblivious. However, when you sign up with someone, you may also be signing up with thousands of others. Why ? Because you are all connected. Thus, information given to one person becomes information given to many others and if you lived in a small town you know what all that means. HOWEVER, the information can get distorted and twisted and soon your life span

as an attractive worker for a new job may be down the drain. An inquiring reporter can find

material that is untrue about you and think it is fact.

THE ECONOMIST (2007) 8/11

9) Is America turning Left. It doesn't appear that way. Roughly one third of the country is

conservative. Half of that is Liberal and 50% don't vote. Many of the issues that may appear in the future will be from the Right and resisted from the Left. The country is not only conservative, but for the most part has been gerrymandered from the Right. Questions and issues generally come from the Right. If America turns to the Democratic Party, they have to face a Right wing supreme court and Right wing state legislatures if not the Congress. This is a country that is very unequal and highly segregated. The enemy is the Liberal and the church is there to support Conservative

members.