Posted on 08/20/2014 12:20:00 PM PDT by Borges
You might think the typical workplace is pretty Orwellian these days. You ain’t seen nuthin’, Winston.
Consulting firm PwC recently published its outlook for work in 2022, based on interviews with 500 human resources experts and 10,000 others in the United States and several other countries. You probably won’t be surprised to hear that big companies could end up so powerful and influential they morph into “ministates” that fill the void when government is unable to provide essential services. Companies will also use sensors and other gizmos to monitor employees around the clock. And workers will mostly acquiesce to this digital leash, in exchange for job security, decent pay and important benefits.
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Temp agencies are the slave traders of the 21st century...and companies love them.
Rollerball?
Beet me to it.
I will wait and see.
This is up your alley.
And those that don't will just go on the government dole, where they will still receive decent pay and important benefits without all the hoops to jump through...
The antidote to that employment murder-fest is the black and gray markets of the world. Why waste your talents as a slave, when you can profit from your own creations?
Of course, plenty of the uber-republicans, wall street concern trolls, and obfuscating liberal patent trolls lurking here on FR will wail about how thinking and innovating on your own is such a terrible idea.
So I ask this: why haven't we seen the genius of Edison, Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Tesla, Westinghouse, or for that matter a Gates, Jobs, Wozniak, or any other great minds or innovators pop up in the 21st century?
They are too busy feeling guilty about wealth redistribution.
No real surprises here. Fascist states like Obama’s are co-dependent upon the existence and cooperation of a few, ginormous enterprises.
“or any other great minds or innovators pop up in the 21st century? “
For heaven’s sake,give it time. We have 86 more years to go.
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If we had a government with any appreciation of our constitution, intrusive meddling such as the above would be shot down as unconstitutional and laws passed to make it illegal with the first instance of a corporation trying it.
But we now have such a bought and paid for Congress who knows what violations of basic rights might be allowed.
2 + 2 = 5
My boss has done many things that came close to ruining my life. Of course I am self employed.
A pretty bleak outlook.
Corporations are their own worst enemies - they keep enacting policies and treating workers in ways that can only give the unionists and socialists more ammo.
Wouldn’t they be more in line with unions, with all the negative associations with them?
‘Just saying.
MSFT is about to turn that around big time. They are limiting their vendor contracts to 18 months which tells me they are about to make a big shift back to making their employees do their own work.
I was told all the technology frees up people to do other things and creates a utopia.
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