A World without Work

If you are in the profession of finding and recruiting people to work for organizations and you are still using a business model from 20 years ago, then you are causing great damage both to the company you work for and the people in it.

There has been a paradigm shift. Most of you already know that the idea of cradle to grave, the concept that a person will spend his or her entire working life in one organization, is not longer valid. The reasons are both economic and social.

But it's more than that. Some of you still think there is such a thing as organizational culture even though the evidence clearly indicates that is not rue – t-shirts and slogans do not make a culture.?

Just the idea infers that the organization is a permanent structure when anyone with common sense can see that is not true. Companies should aspire to long life in order to return profit on investment; organizations should cease to exist when they have completed their task or when the markets opposite which they work change or disappear. A successful company will create many organizations during its lifetime as markets and technology change.

World without Work is an introduction to the new paradigm, one in which the individual seeking work is an independent agent who signs a contract with an organization in which he or she commits to producing a specific outcome for a specific period of time. In the new paradigm the organization is not responsible for the worker's welfare – he or she is.

Inputs, whether they are hours of work or the need to be in a certain place at a certain time, become secondary to the gal of the contract – simply output, defined in both qualitative and quantitative terms.

We have been working on the nuts and bolts of this new paradigm for a few years now – a mature joint effort between two parties equal in status – the person offering compensation and the person seeking compensation.

If you would like to see the nuts and bolts of how it works, just send us a mail. At this stage we are avoiding websites because it's too impersonal.

Keep in mind that the clock is ticking. If you had been in the mass transport business in New York in 1910 you probably wanted to corner the markets on horses and harnesses. In 1917, the last horse on New York's streets was put out to pasture because Mr. Edison had finished the grid for the city.

Don't be the stable owner in 1917. Send us a mail and we will tell you how to avoid it.

Tony