by Graeme Codrington | Jun 26, 2005 | Archive, Future Trends
It goes without saying that we currently live in an era dominated by the “knowledge worker”, as opposed to manual labour or those who use skills as their primary contribution. There is a fundamental difference between these two distinct types of workers....
by Graeme Codrington | Jun 22, 2005 | Archive, Future Trends
In our presentation, Balancing Today and Tomorrow, we argue that white collar/service jobs are rapdily being replaced by machines. We point especially to the professions: starting with accountants, engineers and lawyers, but including architects, pilots and even...
by TomorrowToday Global | Jun 21, 2005 | Future Trends
I had a conversation last night with my Irish brother in law who lives in the USA. We were chatting about the fact that my daughter will be moving to Thailand after her marriage here in SA next month. My son will be moving to London in January. His question was: Do I...
by TomorrowToday Global | Jun 21, 2005 | Archive, Future Trends
Confessions of a Bright Young Thing (BYT) … 1) “Aiden, please put together a Recruitment & Selection Policy for our Co”, Big Boss requests. Aiden replies, “Sure!” So Aiden promptly Googles “Recruitment & Selection...
by Graeme Codrington | Jun 20, 2005 | Future Trends
The UK government statistics department lists information on the flexibility of the UK workforce. Here are some interesting highlights: Over 25% of the UK workforce “sometimes” work at home The number of people working in “mainly” at home...
by Graeme Codrington | Jun 8, 2005 | Future Trends
In Inc.com, June 2005, (page 24), the heading “Franchising Franchising” seemed a strange one to me. At first, I thought it was just a cool design heading for the Franchising section. But the sub-title really got my attention. “Introducing the first...
