An Interview with Phil La Duke
Corporate Retreats Will Explode. The Christmas party was always a time that everybody got together and let their hair down in a social environment. This used to also happen on a regular basis with staff lunched, coffees, or other office social events. With people working from home and not seeing…
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An Interview with Phil La Duke
Employees becoming more prone to switching jobs
Technology providing transparency as to compensation and job conditions
Employers needing to ensure a safe working environment for employees
With dynamic legislative environments, employers need to be flexible and constantly focused on compliance.
Human resource professionals that focus on most of the above…
An Interview with Phil La Duke
Impact-driven work: the focus shifts to outcomes rather than inputs. A few months ago, workers’ productivity depended a lot on their time at the desk, the sheets produced, and many other visual aspects that the manager’s eyes could track. But with the crisis, all these rules have been reversed. Managers…
An Interview with Phil La Duke
You will need the ability to shift between hyper-specialization and generalization. Traditionally it’s been one or the other, but as we become our own CEOs, successful career navigation will mean that we excel at not only doing our jobs but also managing those jobs and their paths.
An Interview with Phil La Duke
Experimenting with blended workforce solutions — leading technology-savvy companies will get more proactive in redesigning their workforce as two interoperating meshes; long-term trusted employees overlaid with the increased usage of Free Agents (contractors, consultants, freelancers) forming a talent-on-demand mesh that can be readily accessed for more rapid, focused work-product delivery.
An Interview with Phil La Duke
IT innovation will focus on distributed workforce. As more people take work away from the 4 walls of the office, technology that seamlessly connects a team wins the day. For example, where we used to accept poor connectivity use sparingly, work 2.0 demands the functionality to level the playing field…
An Interview with Phil La Duke
Team building. If we work remotely, we won’t interact as much. Facetime will build trust and unite groups.
Emotional intelligence/people skills. In-person skills will come back to be popular. Digital communication leads to misunderstandings, unclear guidance, and inefficiency.
Employer/employee agreements get better for both sides. Companies offer richer total compensation…
An Interview with Phil La Duke
Hyperautomation as a driver of operational efficiency. Employees are currently spending billions of hours performing manual, tedious tasks which are costing companies trillions of dollars in wages. A majority of these tasks can and will be automated to free up employees for higher value add activities that drive business growth…
Education programs will adapt to meet targeted needs: As a global community, we are beginning to understand that we cannot take a “one size fits all approach” with education. From high school students to professionals looking for reskilling, I anticipate that programs will continue to put the participant’s needs first…
An Interview with Phil La Duke
Employee wellbeing. Ultimately, a lot of trends around the future of work will revolve around wellbeing. Creating an environment where your staff can come in and focus on their work isn’t just the morally right thing to do, but it also makes for a more productive workforce. …
