How your boss will run your life in a few years

[De Leonist]

You might think the typical workplace is pretty Orwellian these days. You ain’t seen nuthin’, Winston.


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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.

That’s the most dystopian of scenarios PwC outlines in its report, yet it’s not so far-fetched, given the dramatic ways globalization and digital technology are changing the way people work and live. An increasing share of income is flowing to tech barons, data wizards and the privileged holders of capital, while ordinary workers find it harder to earn a living. There are more minimum-wage jobs today but fewer good-paying ones than there were just a few years ago, a trend many forecasters only expect to intensify.


Rest of the article here http://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-your-boss-will-run-your-life-in-a-few-years-165905475.html

[blkmusclmachine]

1. http://thabto.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/1984-front.jpg

[Skittles]

2. it is strange but, I no longer envy the young

no indeed

[MindPilot]

3. "I'm glad I'm old" is becoming a phrase I utter regularly.

My kid is done with school and college, the bills are paid, and I have at worst about 5 years to retirement.

My father passed right after 9/11, I look back, and think "lucky man".

[Skittles]

4. I swear work gets worse by the week

it's such an uneven playing field now - employers hold all the power and it really shows

[surrealAmerican]

5. It sounds pretty far fetched to me ...

... but mostly because I can't imagine them offering "job security, decent pay and important benefits" even with full time monitoring of their employees.