"The economy of the future will not be the economy as it is now"

Um discurso que não anda longe da mensagem deste blogue sobre aquilo a que poderemos chamar emprego em Mongo:

"You can’t avoid peer-to-peer marketplaces.
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They all facilitate integration into the economy without the need to secure employment from a large company.
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Instead, the growing peer economy enables people to monetize skills and assets they already have. Vendors and providers on these platforms choose when to work, what to do and where to do it, sidestepping traditional constraints of geography and scheduling.
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Embedded in this concern are assumptions as to what constitutes a job: that it be full-time, offer benefits, and provide a livable income. These parameters make up a framework, one that is baked into our society. But this framework—which dominated 20th century work—has been on the decline since the late 1970s.
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Though it may seem “timeless”, the 20th century framework for work is not the first such formulation and it will not be the last. There were other mainstream understandings before it—factory work, piece-meal work, craftsmanship and apprenticeship—and undergirding them were a mix of cultural and political factors.
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the peer economy is well positioned to rival our popular understanding of work. The peer economy won’t take over where the framework of full-time employment once sat, but it does change our understanding of what “full work” could mean.
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The economy of the future will not be the economy as it is now. The challenge before us is to reimagine what full work means, not based simply on how we’re used to conceiving of it, but based on a consideration of what we deem most valuable (independence, security, connectedness, etc.).  Thanks to similar movements—from unions to vulnerable workers to urban and rural cooperatives—the threads for that conversation are already there. Let’s make something of it."

Trechos retirados de "The Peer Economy Will Transform Work (or at Least How We Think of It)"

Perigosa propaganda liberal que quer promover a precariedade (parte II)

Uma previsão, "40% of America’s workforce will be freelancers by 2020"

"By 2020, more than 40% of the US workforce will be so-called contingent workers, according to a study conducted by software company Intuit in 2010. That’s more than 60 million people.
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We are quickly becoming a nation of permanent freelancers and temps. In 2006, the last time the federal government counted, the number of independent and contingent workers—contractors, temps, and the self-employed—stood at 42.6 million, or about 30% of the workforce. How many are there today? We have no idea since 2006 was the last year that the government bothered to count this huge and growing sector of the American workforce."

Um sintoma, "US Bank Tower tells the story of downtown LA office market"

""Much of the empty space for rent reflects a departing era with big offices for executives hogging all the prime window space and bullpen work stations for support staff clustered inside around the elevator cores,""

Ainda outra fonte, "Tomorrow’s workforce will come from the cloud, study predicts"

"By various estimates, 20-33 percent of today’s U.S. workforce now comprises independent workers (freelancers, contractors and temps), up from 6 percent in 1989.
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The report’s authors cite recent data that shows emergence of online independent contractor cloud-based talent platforms — such as Elance, oDesk and TopCoder — is a rapidly growing market, with more than one million workers having earned between $1-2 billion over the past 10 years in this industry. (Moi ici: Recordar Peers, Inc.)

Peers, Incorporated

O artigo "How Next-Gen Car Sharing Will Transform Transportation" sobre o qual escrevemos aqui, a propósito dos modelos de negócio baseados na partilha e aluguer, aborda um outro tópico tão ao jeito do que costumamos escrever aqui sobre Mongo:

"Peers, Incorporated is a new organizational model.
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The Industrial Revolution was a response to all those years when people were doing things themselves and creating small-scale one-off businesses. You know what? All the variable quality issues that we find in peer production, industrialization is now going to conquer those and provide a nice consistent product. And lo and behold, as we did that, we found out there’s this fabulous thing called economies of scale. So for the last 200 years, business has been driving full force to achieve success using economies of scale and delivering a nice, consistent product. And we have really reaped those benefits. But I feel that we have now reached, maximized and applied that model to more things than is really useful, and that it’s now time for the pendulum to come back a little bit.
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Peers, Incorporated delivers the best of what industrialization has to offer, and of what individuals — peers — have to offer. It is about giving individuals who are creative and innovative the power of a company. And getting the best out of companies. It’s a partnership between these two groups, where each is providing what it does best. The companies give individuals the advantages of economies of scale, long-term financial investments, standardized contracts and a brand. Individuals deliver what they do best, yet [which] is very expensive for companies [to provide]: diversity of offering, localization, specialization, customization, access to social networks and importantly, innovation. They both have a place, and they both can make lots of money."