LinkedIn CEO, Jeff Weiner, recently shared his list of the 3 trends that will shape the future of work.
- AI and Automation
- The Skills Gap
- Independent Workers.
None of these are particularly new or surprising. They're all well known to anyone who has been following the future of work.
But Weiner's role at LinkedIn provides him with a very large set of data on what's going on with work.
So while these may not be new or surprising, his has a lot of credibility on this topic and his confirmation of the importance of these trends is valuable.
Weiner expanded on why he includes independent workers in his top 3 list.
His reasons are:
- millennials are interesting in independent work.
- online marketplaces are increasingly enabling independent work.
- it’s often cheaper for companies to use a contract worker instead of a traditional employee.
Key quote from his presentation on the shift to independent work:
“We believe this is an irreversible secular trend ..."
We do too.
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