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And to better understand this trend, we closely follow two remote work edge groups - digital nomads and fully remote organizations.   Fully remote organizations are also on the leading edge of remote work because, well, all of their employees are remote.  Digital nomads can be thought of as remote workers on steroids.

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These outside contractors will also tend to stay connected with their client organizations for longer periods of time.  This shift to longer term relationships between independent contractors and hiring organizations will have a wide range of implications for hiring organizations.

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These “career nomads” are high-performing talented pros who have no qualms switching jobs, organizations and even careers.   Hiring organizations need to accept and adapt to this new reality. And as with career nomads, millennials are particularly interested in spending some part of their careers as digital nomads. 

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AUGUST 27, 2019

  The second article, Medium's Here Come the Frogs (Fully Remote Organizations) , is from earlier this year.    This article covers the growing number of organizations that don't have offices or co-located employees. organizations realizing remote workers are effective. Instead, everyone works remotely. 

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But it is a key enabling technology behind the growth of these types of organizations.    We still think cloud computing is in stage 2 and will drive more change in organizations and how business is done. 

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  We think organizations of sizes and types will use more nonemployee labor to increase their business flexibility and agility. ." This succinctly sums up what we also think is going to happen post-pandemic.      We'd just add it won't just be ad firms that do this. 

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Union organizing is rapidly adapting to the new work regime. Employers are struggling to implement systems for tracking and compensating working and travel time for non-exempt employees, among other wage and hour concerns. Privacy and data security issues emerge, particularly as the trend towards global workforces accelerates.

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  But we're now seeing firms and organizations further up the value chain from these industries get hit.  The impact on cities is a good example of the pandemic's 2nd order effects.      The first set of impacts hit consumer-facing industries, like travel, entertainment and dining. 

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AUGUST 31, 2020

According to the National Human Genome Research Institute synthetic biology is: " a field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities. " Synthetic biology is not a new trend.

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Wego Health Experts : an on-demand digital matching platform that enables healthcare organizations to find and hire highly-specialized independent talent.    And, of course, biotech companies are increasing their use of gig workers across their organizations. 

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Another driver is the growing acceptance by hiring organizations that remote workers can be highly valuable and productive contributors.    A 3rd driver is, of course, more people want to work remotely.

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It's also resulted in a growing backlash among independent workers as well as organizations that hire them. .  But the broadly worded and vague language of the new law is leading to a wide range of unintended negative consequences.

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JUNE 24, 2019

.  While Facebook is the driving force behind Libra, it’s created a foundation that other organizations can join. So far 27 organizations including Mastercard, Visa and Stripe and Paypal, Uber, Lyft, Spotify, several venture capital firms and 4 nonprofits have joined as founding members of the Libra Foundation. 

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JULY 30, 2018

Biofabrication is the use of biomaterials such as cells, proteins and organisms as building blocks in a manufacturing process. Probably the best known example of biofabrication is the use of 3D printers to create tissue used in treatments for damaged joints and organs. This is still in the experimental stage.

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.  Nanotech plays a big role in the list with 3 (assuming you include "organs-on-chips" in nano). Organs-on-chips. Health/bio related also come in with 3. There are 2 power related and 2 IT related (3, if you include autonomous vehicles in IT).    The 10 are: 1. Nanosensors and the Internet of Nanothings.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Non-profits and social service organizations are in many cases replacing governments as the key solvers of social problems. Baby boomers, looking for encore careers and a way to give back, are starting growing numbers of non-profits. Millennials, who have a strong interest in social service, are starting non-profits.

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  As unions have declined, non-union organizations have formed that are focused on organizing, mobilizing and advocating for workers.  These groups go by many names including "work centers" and "worker alliances", but are are broadly called  Alt-Labor organizations.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

The need for speed : Pretty much all the participants agreed that their organizations needed to move faster. With organizations choosing to run lean, often internal employees don't have the bandwidth to take on new tasks. Three key drivers were consistently cited: 1. Increasingly, it's an outside contractor.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Morgan is one of the leading futurists examining work, so it comes as no surprise he does a great job of describing the forces that are changing work and explaining how organizations and their leaders can successfully respond to these changes. Those who follow future of work trends closely may feel little new ground is covered.

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Both supply and demand factors are driving this growth: Organizations are hiring more independent professionals : The war for talent, skills shortages and the increased need for talent agility and flexibility is resulting in the greater use of external talent. As the study chart below shows, it's increased from 4.5 million in 2011 to 5.9

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

Based on this work, guilds seemed like a logical way for new artisans to organize. And the growing interest in co-ops  and other forms of collective ownership is clearly leading to increasing numbers of guild-like organizations, with Prime Produce being a good example. We expect to see more of them.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Non-profits and social service organizations are in many cases replacing governments as the key solvers of social problems. Baby boomers, looking for encore careers and a way to give back, are starting growing numbers of non-profits. Millennials, who have a strong interest in social service, are starting non-profits.

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APRIL 16, 2019

" The emergence of superjobs is going to require new types of thinking by both organizations and workers. In particular training people for jobs that require strong hard and soft skills will not be easy. It will also require major shifts in thinking.    It's not just traditional employees who will become super.

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Key quote from the report on their 2018 priorities: • Scaling our program to reach more people, given strong income results and favorable attitudes toward independent work, through partnerships with workforce systems, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions • Continuing to collect data to build an understanding of the long-term implications (..)

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This is very different from the traditional grass roots, self-organized clubs where membership is either cheap or free.  ." The broader point of the article is that the new wave of clubs need to charge high prices because they are ventured backed, have lots of amenities and high costs.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

based organizations.  One of the reasons we follow Euromonitor's research is their global perspective. Being based outside of the U.S. and working across geographies gives them a perspective often missing from trend analyses from U.S.   The full report is well worth reading (it's free, but registration is required). 

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

There's even a report on the Uberization of Field Service  and a different study showing that 76% of organizations that use field service technicians use independent contractors. So while there may not be as many independent field service technicians as there are ride share drivers, there are a lot of them.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

The HBR's The Big Factors That Attract the Best Freelancers  provides an excellent overview of why companies are hiring more freelancers and what organizations need to do to attract top flight contingent talent. Externals lack commitment to our organization 5. It’s difficult to find experts who match our culture 2.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Also from Forbes is  Top Challenges Facing HR Directors Of Global Firms In 2017 : "Another trend that is impacting organizations is the increasing emergence of the Gig economy. For organizations, there’s a shift in strategy from ‘I need to hire a person’ to ‘I need to complete a task.""

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

  To comply with Prop 22 - which only applies to "app-based drivers" retained by "network companies" - hiring organizations (such as Uber and Lyft) must provide a set of benefits normally not provided to contractors or gig workers.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

As coworking spaces have evolved from open space to hybrid space, more people and organizations are increasingly using the term flexible workspace.  Key quote: The industry has come a long way since it first took off in the early 2000s.

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JULY 27, 2017

  But the various indoor food startups are all claiming they can deliver their indoor food for the same cost, or even cheaper, than outdoor grown organic food. .  The major downside of indoor farming has historically been higher prices.  One reason is the use of LED lighting systems.   Plenty has plenty of competition. Aerofarms,

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The Strategy & Business article The Future of Management is Teal argues: Organizations are moving forward along an evolutionary spectrum, toward self-management, wholeness, and a deeper sense of purpose.

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Based on the problem we need to solve we will put together a team, and it’s an informal project structure that’s organic, and adaptive."   People have been predicting for decades smaller, collaborative, networked organizations would replace large, hierarchical organizations. It was hard to blame them. 

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

They also provide tools and reporting functions that provide contingent talent buyers visibility and analytics related to an organizations contingent workforce scope and spend.   Several organizations currently provide freelancer management systems including MBO Partners , Work Market , Elance-oDesk and On Force.

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JUNE 15, 2015

Key quote from the KQED article: "“More conscientious eating — meaning organic, sustainable and healthy food — is a huge trend, much bigger than many people realize,” said Ali Partovi, an investor in food companies. " My favorite example from the article is Bitty Foods , which makes cricket-based flour and cookies.

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MAY 18, 2015

The reason is despite all of these forces being well known, most organizations, institutions and people still haven't adjusted to this new world. This is the way it is with shifts, forces and trends - they take a long time to reach the mainstream and even a longer time before most organizations adapt to them.

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