OPTION 1: As a traditional employer, you put people to work for your company because you need them now. But then: You’re responsible to them, one way or another, as the company evolves. The cost of everything that goes into maintaining their traditional employee status is high, even spread out over multiple employees. The commitment…
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Decline of Executive Power
Today was huge. I call it the Verizon Event. For a few years Daniel and I have been talking non-stop about changes in traditional employment. We discuss the social and economic drivers behind those changes. But not so much about corporations. I have written about the eventual end of traditional hierarchical organizational structure in modern corporations….
What Floating Education says about Traditional Employment
Traditional education may be a dinosaur since the rise of Google. People point to enrollment stats to say it ain’t so, but this misses the fact that traditional universities have had to radically alter their existing premises in order to adapt, and offer courses in ways they claimed, early on, were a threat to education…
What Cloud Software Says for Hiring People
Cloud computing is a leaner approach, a more agile approach and a greener approach, than installing stuff to hard drives and servers, keeping it updated, secure, and running smoothly. [This post] observes that ”the majority of data center power use comes from non-IT companies running their own data centers less efficiently. ” and cites [google’s own report on how…
Heinz and Boeing on the Employer Pushcar
Heinz is announcing layoffs, plant closings, and price increases in a weak economy with rising ingredient costs. One could argue that the cost of employing people is not really the drain they say it is – not anymore. It’s not employment cost, it’s employer cost . There are lots of alternative ways to put people…
Ideas and Infrastructure – When They Roll Their Eyes, Roll Your Ideas
Most people think if you have a visionary idea and no business plan, corporate structure, financing, and talent pool, you’re an unrealistic dreamer destined to fail. Their focus is on respectability, not innovation. Then they’re surprised when an idea comes seemingly out of nowhere and rapidly constitutes the next big thing. But anyone who has…
Temps (1999) Gets it Right
No, not “the Temp” (that crappy crazed psychopath film) – this is Maria Burton’s “Temps” about various people trying to make sense of life in the hands of staffing agencies. They have it on DVD via Netflix if you’re a flixer. If you’ve ever been the temp in a new workplace, a contractor hassled over…
Returning Vet Startups
Instead of looking for jobs when they get home, a lot of veterans are starting small businesses, with the help of programs that cultivate entrepreneurship. (WSJ 11/11/10). Overall, this indicates many returning veterans are open to multiple options that include alternatives to standard employment.
Job Forecast Worries?
Find Work, Not Jobs! There may not be as many jobs these days, but the business of America still needs to get done. As independent professionals, independent consultants, contractors, Free Agents!… we don’t need jobs, we need work and clients. Next time you are at your favorite trade and professional association meeting or anywhere else…