The Future of Work

Lessons from the Pandemic

Original planning might have had us discussing
some of the following predictions for 2030.
Are the timings still the same?

▪ China will have the worlds largest economy

▪ English will not be the main language for international communication

▪ The price of Gold will be $5,000+ an ounce [currently ~$1,500)

▪ 85% of the jobs that todays students will be doing in 2030 have not
been invented yet

▪ The most intriguing [2030] jobs include “Organ Creator” & “Augmented
Reality journey builder”

▪ People will still be using Facebook

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But now…things are “adjusted”
Now we (may) have a catalyst for our digital
adoption…

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Some firms are experfiencing a massive
increase in demand for digital services

Alibaba Dingtalk:
▪ In January ~670.000 downloads
▪ End February ~17 million downloads

Tencent Meeting
▪ End January all time downloads ~250.000
▪ End February all time downloads ~9 million

Zoom stock price

▪ 2 January 2020 $68.62
▪ 23 March 2020 $159.56

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COVID 19 will (probably) accelerate the rate
of human digital transformation

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What Might This Mean for organizations in the future?

Expanding Perspectives for Young

High Potentials

Organizational Company Culture shift

capabilities need hierarchies may
(massive be redrawn
technological) - Encouraging ideas
enhancement - Autonomous teams - Allowing mistakes
- Offices are ghost towns - Wire-archies - Digital leadership
- Zoom, Slack, Skype, - Empowered & agile. - Companies must
MS Teams amongst restructure around
others are the new people..
company hangouts...

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The technologies likely to be adopted by 2022.
But the labor market struggles keep up

Source. WEF Future of Jobs report 2018

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Many roles will become redundant

Source. WEF Future of Jobs report 2018

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What’s the implication?
An inevitable gap between new
technology & skills is emerging

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We need to focus on building different skills
The jobs we will be recruiting in 2030

Jobs recruitment 2030

1 Organ Creator
2 Augmented reality journey builder
3 Biofilm installer
4 Earthquake forecaster
5 Makeshift structure engineer
6 Rewilder
7 Human machine teaming manager
8 Digital currency advisor
9 Drone traffic optimiser
10 Self driving car mechanic

Source. LinkedIn blog, Bruce Anderson November 2018

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Organizations need work on creating an appealing
environment that touches all employees

Company Career

▪ Diversity ▪ Engaged ▪ Personal ▪ Lifelong learning

▪ Time flexibility Leadership Challenge ▪ Attraction and
recruitment
▪ Social Responsibility ▪ Inspirational ▪ Variety in role
Leaders ▪ Meet Career Goals ▪ Social media &
▪ Employee
▪ Great Reputation / Transforming onboarding
Engagement
▪ Dual Career skills ▪ Re-think retirement
▪ Camaraderie
families ▪ Autonomy ▪ Re – imagine
▪ High performing
▪ Innovative ▪ Advancement “interns”
teams
Products ▪ Professional
Growth
Compensation

▪ Competitive ▪ Time Off

Salary ▪ Performance
▪ Recognition Mgt
▪ Incentives ▪ Mobility &
▪ Retirement housing
▪ Health

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