Work, Education, and Leisure - no longer worlds apart
- What greater intellectual value, more
services, less (traditional) manufacturing, less agriculture,
more lifelong
education, ...
- Industrial sector - shrinking (just as the agricultural sector did)
- 1960: 33% of the work force
- 1990: 17%
- 2025: 2% - (projected by Jeremy Rifkin, in his new book
"The end of work")[1]
When work and leisure will be more
interleaved; with more fractional-time work (see "Who" below)
How IT (which includes communication and
computation) will enable distance working/education/...
collaboration with others for work and leisure will be the norm
Why While largely a social and political question - reasons will include:
- self satisfaction
- interaction with others (office gossip/politics/sex?/...)
- $$$, greed, ...
Where most people will work from where ever they want to be:
- home [boat, summer cottage, ...]
- local business "centers"
- offices/factories/... {Traditional working places}
- 61% in the building but away from desk; 13% out of the building
but on the coporate campus; 15% out of the building but in the metropolitan
area; and 11% out of the metropolitan area[2]
Because users are not simply in fixed locations
- Who A very fluid collection of
individuals and groups buying and selling their input and output,
it many cases it is already very difficult to tell who really is an employee
(outsourcing,
(long-term) consultants, ...); a more
inclusive work force - due to fractional employment
(already occurring via "papa/mama-ledig")
[1] See "Fler jobb bort på 2000-talet", Dagens
Nyheter, 31 Juli, 1995, s. C1
[2] "Mobilizing your work force", Internetwork, September 1996, pg. 42.