{"id":2311,"date":"2019-10-25T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.druckerforum.org\/blog\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2023-11-01T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:29:43","slug":"crafting-sustainable-work-ecosystems-by-andrew-spence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.druckerforum.org\/blog\/crafting-sustainable-work-ecosystems-by-andrew-spence\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting sustainable work ecosystems <\/br>by Andrew Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world of work can be seen as a complex ecosystem<\/a> with many interdependent species including workers, employers, suppliers, and regulators.\u00a0 In predicting the impact of technology on the future of work, the prevailing economic narrative<\/a> focuses on changes to jobs and tasks caused by automation. We need to examine the impact that the same technology has already had on workers and our societies, and also the infrastructure we use to organise our work.<\/p>\n

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Drucker Forum 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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This article is one in the \u201cshape the debate\u201d series relating to the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum<\/a><\/span>, under the theme \u201cThe Power of Ecosystems\u201d taking place on November 21 & 22, 2019 in Vienna, Austria.
\n#GPDF19 #ecosystems<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The internet has provided new ways to spend our time, whether in gaming, shopping, socialising or watching movies. We also have more options to earn money, from payments for clicking adverts, to producing videos or paid tasks designing, coding, writing or driving.\u00a0 The digital age has changed the competitive dynamic between our leisure time and our working time.<\/p>\n

The infrastructure we use to find workers and work is now creaking in the digital age, where Google has made much of our information searchable. In the world of work, there is poor visibility of career data, friction in the system and inefficient matching. Workers can\u2019t see all the available jobs, and employers can\u2019t see all the available workers. We still use CVs\/resumes where the data is self-reported, unverified and not searchable. The data on CVs is only part of the story when it comes to predicting success in a new role. Our career data is stored, and sold, in protected centralised databases owned by the recruitment industry. Employers pay a high transaction fee for access to these \u2018walled-gardens\u2019 of workers\u2019 data.<\/p>\n

A new decentralised infrastructure for work<\/a> is being built that will give people sole ownership of their digital identities and allow career data such as qualifications and employment history to be owned and managed in digital wallets. With these foundations, new peer-to-peer work matching platforms<\/a> can emerge that reduce much of the current inefficiencies and cost.\u00a0 With more trust between workers and employers, different organisational structures will evolve that pull resources when needed from a liquid workforce. Recruitment could become almost seamless, \u201ca simple boundary change, because you already know who they are and who you want.\u201d as Don Tapscott said.<\/p>\n

In creating diverse, sustainable and more resilient work ecosystems a multi-disciplinary approach is needed. We also need a change in mindset: as Peter Drucker warned, the most dangerous thing in turbulent times is not the change itself, but trying to solve problems using the same thinking as in the past. In using the ecosystem metaphor for organisations, it\u2019s worth noting that biological ecosystems are not designed, they emerge. Let\u2019s give this new decentralised infrastructure for work a chance to evolve, so that our future organisations and careers can flourish.<\/p>\n

About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Spence <\/strong>works as a workforce strategist and is faculty at the Blockchain Research Institute @AndySpence <\/em><\/p>\n

This article is one in the Drucker Forum \u201cshape the debate\u201d<\/strong> series relating to the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum<\/a>, under the theme \u201cThe Power of Ecosystems\u201d, taking place on November 21-22, 2019 in Vienna, Austria #GPDF19 #ecosystems<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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