How Factory Labor Shaped Our Workday: 100 Years of Workplace Evolution and What’s Next

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The Evolution Of Work

Children now want to be youtubers. and we’re seeing social media influencers as lucrative careers. Jobs like social media managers have now sprung up in the last decade to be the support team for these influencers.

Gone are the days when children were expected to go to university and get a stamp. And get settled in one single career. Companies know that and they are furiously investing in reskilling and upskilling their employees so they can stay relevant. Instead of bringing talent to work, they are bringing work to talent.

The eight-hour workday was based on factory labor. Newer research shows that for knowledge work, information workers today, we’re only productive for around three hours a day on average.

Micro social networking is how we’re surviving in the gig economy. Factory work was rote. It was easily replaced by machines. Then came work that could be easily outsourced. interchangeable, routine

But there will always be a place for creativity. Even when you’re building and managing robots, you will have to use your imagination and your creativity to solve problems.

Creativity And Adaptability As Tools

As work continues to get more automated, only our unique value proposition as humans will set us apart from machines. As such, qualities like our unlimited imagination, our creativity and our drive to make a difference will become even more invaluable.

If we must continue our work towards using Technology as a tool to make our life convenient and efficient and not become a puppet in its hands, we must learn to navigate the digital age without forgetting our core strengths.

In the end, our world is a product of our imagination and vision and not the exponential output of the machines we’re building. Only humans can communicate effectively with others, manage, delegate and resolve differences. Only we can learn on the job, be emotionally flexible towards experiences and adopt positive role models. In the end, it’s our understanding of what gives us humans a competitive edge over machines.

While schools drive academic accomplishments, lets also teach our 21st Century children essential life skills. So, they can take on any job with the top 3 skills colleges and employers want: Perseverance, Creativity and Adaptability, and with emotional flexibility and self confidence that they need.

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If you’re not careful you can follow your passion right into poverty. ~ Srini Rao

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