Hey, nobody can really tell
what the future holds. But if it’s anything like what HR pros predicted in a
recent report, both employers and employees will have lots of adjustments to
make. The consulting firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) just published a report titled The Future of Work: A Journey to 2022, which was based on
interviews with 500 HR experts in the U.S. as well as several other countries.
And the results of that report paint a sort-of-surreal image of corporate life in the
next decade. Some of the highlights:
Constant monitoring, survival of the fittest
Finding #1: Employers will take a Big
Brother approach to workers’ personal lives and health. In recent years, we’ve
seen many employers trying to get their workers to live healthier lives in an
effort to ward off chronic conditions and, ultimately, reduce health claims costs. PwC predicts that
this tactic will increase exponentially.
In fact, many employers will
monitor their workers — inside and outside the office — like “lab rats.” As the
study puts it: “The monitoring may even stretch into [employees'] private lives
in an extension of today’s drug tests.” The report did note that the degree of
monitoring would likely be dictated by the amount of worker resistance at a
company.
Finding #2: Pay-for-performance will
become an exact and complex science. The idea of doling out the lion’s share of
your salary-increase budget to top performers is nothing new. However, by 2022,
the study predicted that employers will use the types of data-mining techniques
used by corporate giants like Amazon to create performance profiles for workers
based on hundreds of pieces of data.
Finding #3: Independent contractors (ICs) will replace full-time employees. If you thought ICs were
popular now, you haven’t seen anything yet — at least that’s what the study
predicts. The report said an increasing number of “traditionalists” will adjust
to what PwC calls a “portfolio career” and benefit in a number of ways.
Source : HR morning
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