Remote Work
Independent contractors
Online platform workers
Contract firm workers
On-call workers
Temporary workers.
What are examples of gig workers?
A company that powers 30% of websites globally and is one of the largest remote companies.
What is Wordpress?
A representation of how something works. It is a thinking tools that allow us to make sense of systems.
What is a mental model?
Do their work outside the office, working from home, co-working spaces, coffee shops, and more. They no longer limit themselves to a typical office space
Who is a remote worker?
Project management
Time management
Communication
Technical knowledge
Balance
Learning Skills
What are examples of some critical skills required to thrive in the emerging workforce?
Identify the map of “things” or “elements of the system”
Map how these elements, relate and interact with one another.
Connect them to one another.
What are the basic steps to mapping a system?
Less social connections with colleagues.
Possible distractions.
Potential for worse work-life balance.
Negative willpower and boredom.
Communication issues.
What are the disadvantages of remote work?
Greater flexibility.
Custom environment.
Potential for greater work-life balance.
Greater productivity.
Reduce costs.
What are the advantages of remote working?
Proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.
What is the Gaia hypothesis?
5 to 7
How many times will the average person change their career in their lifetime?
Globalization, digitization, corporate agility, technology and COVID-19.
What are some the key drivers accelerating the rise of remote work?
Occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own.
91%
By how much did the remote workforce grow in the last 10 years?
A global freelancing platform where businesses and individual freelanders connect to conduct business.
What is Upwork? (or Fiverr)
An online platform that consists of book lists, essays, podcasts and a vibrant social network. Devoted to helping people expand their mental models and thinking tools.
Farnam street.