Future of Work

The only certainty we have is that how we work in 2025 will be significantly different to how we do today.

I am bringing thought leaders from different industries together to share their views on the future of work in 2025.

A few days ago I published an article about Millennials and promised to publish the detailed charts If you read my article, you’ve noticed that I reference several studies and data sources. During the research, I looked not only at the global numbers, but used different perspectives to look at the data, just to make…

How often have you seen or heard the following statement without giving it a second thought? “In 2025, Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce.” I’ve heard it mentioned many, many times over recent years and I must confess that until a few weeks ago, I’d never questioned it. 75% seemed to have established…

In February of 2013 I published a blog titled “Let’s make HR invisible”. I wrote it shortly after a series of cloud acquisitions had completely shaken up the HR ERP vendor space. There were high hopes for these new HR solutions to make work life easier and improve employee productivity. ERP did come with self service,…

Who is your employee? Is it the person who has a permanent contract with your company and a place on the org chart? The contractor who was just hired on your project team? The temp who is filling in for a colleague on maternity leave? What about the robot that is assembling your products? In…

Take a wild guess: How many people in your company are on LinkedIn? My best guess: almost all of them. I’m fairly certain your employees and recruiters are avid LinkedIn users. Imagine what would happen if LinkedIn decides to capitalize on their popularity in matching jobs and profiles by taking it one step further: develop…

It’s October! For people in HR that means making the difficult decision to go to the HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas or to attend HR Tech World Congress in Paris. Once you’re on the road, take a good look around in the airports that you visit, because there’s a new kind of ads being…

In the office of the future you will stand at work or hang at work. The one thing you will not do is sit down for a longer period of time. It’s a really interesting concept, inspired of course by the renewed focus on longevity and health.  Dutch experimental studio Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances (RAAAF) and visual…

It’s a beautiful spring day in 2020. You wake up feeling wonderful, because today is your day. By this time tomorrow, you’ll have a brand new title, a raise and a corner office. You jump into your personal glide, that brings you to the office where you go straight to the VP of HR to…