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Deloitte on the Future of Work

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Deloitte has become, in our opinion, one of the key go-to sources of information and analysis on the future of work. Their recent article Redefining work, workforces, and workplaces is a good example. "   As the article chart above shows (click to enlarge), they focus on three main areas: work, workforce and workplace. ."

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TechCrunch's 5 Startup Trends for the 2020s

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While enterprise data infrastructure has improved at least the management of these databases, it’s still amazing how little data enriches our decisions, offers new avenues for analysis, and quite frankly, just makes our lives better on a day-to-day basis.    4.    4.

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The Rise of Smart Farms

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They break up agtech companies into 9 catagories: Farm Management Software : Software that allows farmers to more efficiently manage their resources, crop production, farm animals, etc. Animal Data : Software and hardware specifically aimed at improving livestock management. Marketplaces : That are relevant to agriculture.

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The Drivers of Contingent Workforce Use by Enterprises

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But technology - and especially technology for managing distributed workers and teams - has reached the point where these these shifts are happening at an accelerating rate. This task requires a team to accomplish, but is simply one of many tasks required to complete the entire project. Interestingly, none of these drivers are new.

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Gartner's Top Trends for 2017

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Key quote on what this means: Employees, already familiar with behavior influencing through contextual algorithms on consumer sites such as Amazon, will be influenced by an emerging set of “persuasive technologies” that leverage big data from myriad sources, mobile, IoT devices and deep analysis.

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Coworking and the Blending of Work and Life

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Key quote: work and personal life should be allies and that participation in multiple roles, such as parent, partner, friend, employee, can actually enhance physical and psychological well-being — especially when all of the roles are high quality and managed together.   Coworking Freelance Independent workers'

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Labormetrics, Autonomy and Employee Tracking

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.  Key quote: Thanks to mobile devices and inexpensive monitoring software, managers can now know where workers are, eavesdrop on their phone calls, tell if a truck driver is wearing his seat belt and intervene if he is tailgating.