One of the things I love to do is read new blogs. Some are good and others are great. I've recently found Blogging4Jobs. Actually, I think I first became aware of them on Twitter. (But that is a different story).
Their most recent post The Future of Work had some great food for thought as well as a very interesting Slide Share presentation.
My take-away from reading their post and watching the presentation is that times are changing! Duh. But things are really changing. Fast. Depending on what industry you've been in, you may or may not have known.
From the Slide Share presentation Jeff Brenman of Apollo Ideas :
- JetBlue started a virtual call center in 2004 with 700 Custer service reps working from home
- According to interviews with execs, they outsource for greater innovation, not to save money
- ReCAPTCHA is using us to help solve their problems by asking new users to re-type their indecipherable word when verifying a new account
- 28 million American workers served on a virtual team at least one day/month in 2006
Keep up with some of the interesting things going on in other industries or other part of the world of work. Read and learn outside of your comfort zone.
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