In braver, new workplace ahead looms the 24/7 employee

[teach1st]

Scary take from the Tampa Bay Times on Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) predictions about the future of the workplace.

Worker performance increasingly will be monitored 24/7 by employers. "Sensors check their location, performance and health. The monitoring may even stretch into their private lives in an extension of today's drug tests," predicts pwc, which finds younger generations more open to sharing such personal information. "Periodic health screening gives way to real-time monitoring of health, with proactive health guidance and treatment to enable staff to perform more efficiently, reduce sick leave and work for more years before needing to retire."

The pwc report —"The Future of Work" — sees three kinds of competing, intertwined workplace worlds ahead.

First up are mega-corporations that will act more like "mini-states" to compete globally for the best talent with cutthroat efficiency. They will make big demands on the talent they hire in exchange for better pay, benefits and relative job security.

"The attractions include high rewards for high-fliers," says pwc. "This is a chance to be one of the 'haves' in a world where stable employment is less and less the norm." It's also a world in which social responsibility is minimized.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/workinglife/in-braver-new-workplace-ahead-looms-the-247-employee/2195336

[msongs]

1. we need a new trans pacific trade agreement to help us get closer to this reality eh? nt

[KarenS]

2. I feel so disgusted about all of this,,,,

Hopefully this article exaggerates the future,,, but probably not.

My 'working' days are over, but I feel for the younger generations.

Unions need to make a comeback.

[catnhatnh]

3. 9 words tell the whole story...

"and work for more years before NEEDING to retire"...

Because wanting to will no longer be an option.

[upaloopa]

4. I am glad I lived when I did. I'm 68 and I don't want to live

in the brave new world.
I said long ago that more and more we will have to be similar pieces stamped from a mold or your life will not be as good as it could be.
But I predict there will be an underground world where the misfits will live happily together.

[steve2470]

5. if this comes to pass, this is truly sad and frightening

I fear for my son.

[TheKentuckian]

6. Time to stop the madness in its tracks