If you recently graduated or still-candidate-of higher education, then you actually do not know much, like what days will you pass on the office-if you get a job later. What kind of job would you? What would be expected by the boss and colleagues about yourself? The work world is changing very drastically. A typical workplace in 2007 looked very different from typical office on 20 years ago. New technologies and lifestyle changes require you to work in a different way than your parents first.
These are the major trends you need to look at:
1. The work environment has changed. With new technology, people can work smarter, and using less time for things that are not productive. Globally, workers spend an average of one hour to go to the office. But, the more extensive and fast internet connection allows them to work at least once a week from home, and it saves a trip to the office two hours per day.
A new survey in Britain showed that nearly half of the best companies allow employees to perform their duties at home. Of course working from home raises questions, such as how concerned can focus and productive. But, the technology also tackle the problem with solutions like workstreaming, where people can be monitored by a supervisor with the online tools.
With the increasing number of employees who work from home and gave birth to the so-called virtual office, many companies are reducing the space for employees. In fact, many employees now do not have a table in the office. They carry a laptop everywhere, from home to office and when meeting with clients. At the office, they can wear whichever table is available. For companies, this reduces the costs for electricity and rent space.
On the other hand, when many companies are “narrow” their offices, a number of other companies expand facilities to attract their best talent. Google, for example, provides a cafeteria, salon, car repair, language classes, gymnastics and beach volleyball classes. Other companies try to provide special facilities.
2. In addition to the work environment, time to work is changing. Formulas long working hours, from 9 to 5, are now challenged to be more flexible. On certain days, you must complete a report that came home quite late. On another day, you can leave early to go to the gym or watch a movie last week with friends. Flexibility becomes the new rules are required everywhere. Flexible work hours not only lets you work on demand, but also when one day you work longer, you can take off on another day instead.
Still related to the flexibility of labor, more and more companies are providing a sabbatical ?for employees. These facilities are attractive especially for the younger generation, your generation, who want to have a chance once a year to travel far.
3. Now, what about the job itself? Technology becomes the most important factor. The meaning of “work” changed dramatically with changes in use of technology. A number of jobs became obsolete, and new jobs, to appear. Now, we use email, send instant messages, do some research online and utilizing automated computer programs to complete the work.
You will enter the world of work that has been marked by the growth of computer games, and while working you send SMS and instant messages to friends. You calculated as the generation that has a device that requires skill to manage your boss-generation all-round, and have little patience for long meetings.
4. So, you are expected to be more empowered and better at problem-solving than your predecessor generation. Of course, if the technology very effectively to improve work efficiency, he also can interfere with productivity. Technology impacts (bad) in the office. Workers now have an email network that should always be checked, there are the videos from YouTube which can be viewed at any time, and virtual reality games that can be played while working. All it requires companies to conduct surveillance, and if necessary precautions.
5. What about salary? It is important to note early on, despite expectations of yourself constantly increasing, but wages have not apparently follow. Various research shows, the gap (salary) between top management and employees “ordinary” will still wide. So, you have to keep working hard and reach the top to get a high salary.
6. What is clear, now you know that the employers have been and are increasingly sensitive to happy employees with various forms of facilities. However, you also need to know that now began to emerge a new cadre of employees who work in areas of extreme employment. Extreme job. Harvard Business Review defines it as the work being done by highly paid professionals who work with crazy: fast, under tight deadlines, working outside of regular working hours, ready to clients 24 hours a day 7 days a week, was in office at least 10 hours a day , frequent travel, the work contains many unexpected things, and have a broad responsibility.
7. The facts: The Hidden Brain Drain Task Force, a group monitoring trends in the U.S. workforce survey 6% of highest paid individuals globally. Nearly 10% of the super-worker that spends more than 100 hours per week for their work. Forty-two percent took 10 days off each year, and some of them claim to always postpone their vacation plans.
8. Are you obsessed with a worker such extremes? A number of smart entrepreneurs, however, will examine the long-term effects of extreme jobs and encourage workers to the ?super-more attention to work-life balance.
9. By the way, what future career center, or will you seek? Perhaps accountants, managers, salespeople, or a researcher? Or, maybe you just feel that you have a great energy to try to work an extreme? The demand for extreme work will indeed continue to increase, but if we look further ahead, the new jobs will be more open exotic.
Supposed to work is a wonderful thing. However, when your work is turned into activities that most makes you stressed, surely you would think to immediately stop working. Taking the decision to resign from the company who have for years been a place you are looking for a living is not easy, especially when you have dependents.
