In my last post I asked if traditional employment was dead...I linked to an article that had a somewhat negative outlook. Today I offer a somewhat more positive spin to this question. This article from Fortune contributor Larissa Faw looks at How Millennials are Redefining Careers.
As a Gen Xers near the end of that spectrum I guess I don't see this as anything new. While an undergrad the chair of my department liked quoting to us at Department of Labor statistic about how we would have on average 7 - 10 employers (careers, depending on whose wording you wanted to use.) At the beginning of the piece the author details how people used to define themselves as a single identity (engineer, teacher, NASA, etc.) but now people see themselves with multiple identities (journalist AND marketing consultant AND co-partner in a company.)
In a related piece on Fortune contributor Dorie Clark ponders Why Your Company Should Blow Up the Corporate Ladder. It examines that in order to attract and retain top talent companies should begin to change the way they view the rigid corporate structure? The article looks at a book about an alternative to that rigid structure The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work. In this book the authors look at how movements in a lattice (sometimes sideways, sometimes slightly down or slightly up) can help improve employee satisfaction and thus improve their productivity.
If these authors are correct, will it improve corporate structure? Will it help improve unemployment? Confidence in the economy? I would love to hear what people think.
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