Cover Photo by Hyundai Motor Group on Pexels.com Automating Jobs Away I was just listening to Marketplace on NPR (Jobs of the Future: Middle class struggles with changing job market). Analysts are finally talking about something I have been saying for a long time. The jobless rate is not just about creating industrial age jobs because in the last several recessions … [Read more...] about Automating Jobs Away
Scenario Planning
US Labor Policy and Employment
Thinking out loud: Back in January of 2009 I wrote the blog post below. Since then, the White House, and several part of the executive branch, with the support of congress, have attempted to shore-up American labor with stimulus funds and various other efforts. I believe much of their effort is misguided because they do not look at the complexity of the relationships involved, … [Read more...] about US Labor Policy and Employment
The Internet’s Uncertain Future
Anyone who claims they can accurately predict the Internet’s future is at minimum wrong, definitively delusional and perhaps borderline psychotic. The Internet is influenced by many things, and any attempt to extrapolate outcomes from current trends in destined to failure. If that is true, then how does an organization plan for its future? The answer is scenario planning. The … [Read more...] about The Internet’s Uncertain Future
Science, Uncertainty and Being Right
The October 2010 Scientific American reports on an exclusive poll about trust in science. For the most part, people trust scientists, but not at the highest level, especially when it comes to things that non-scientists have personal experience with. At the low end of the trust rung were food safety, vitamins and supplements, genetically modified crops, pesticides, … [Read more...] about Science, Uncertainty and Being Right
The Working Poor and Workforce Development
Future of Work Blog reposted from 9/28/2006 8:53:21 PM In the July 29th Economist article from Welfare to Workfare, Jennifer Noyes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty says that we should be thinking about the working poor, and those that cannot find work, should be considered as part of the workforce develop efforts within … [Read more...] about The Working Poor and Workforce Development
