17 Deaths and Births at work in 3 years

17 Deaths and Births are predicted to happen at work in next 3 years.

Next 3 years are going to be years of solid disruption at workplace like never before. Is your company ready for these changes?

1. Death of Office – Employers will go hybrid and try to cut 30-60% infra costs
2. Death of 9-5 – Employees will prefer to work flexi time.
3. Death of Metros – Employees will leave big cities, reduce their cost of living, increase disposable income, and improve their quality of life. Employers and Employees will prefer to work from small towns – save more money and have more peace.
4. Birth of Confusion: Managers/Leaders won’t know how to manage hybrid and work from home. Employees won’t know how to fulfill employer expectations. Huge resentment will happen
5. Birth of remote hiring: Remote work will democratize access to the best opportunity to people staying anywhere in the world.
6. Birth of micro coworking spaces: Employers will develop micro coworking space for 10-50 people at smaller towns for employees who are living there and don’t have proper WFH conditions.
7. Birth of Health consciousness: Employers will have to address frequent neck, back & knee pain and injuries. A gym / yoga studio and ergonomic furniture in these micro coworking centers will become mandatory.
8. Birth of Async work: Time for an employee to be online all the time will go. Long video calls and meeting are performance killers. Async work solves this problem
9. Death of commuting: No employee wants to commute 2 hours a day. More employment decisions will be based on time taken to travel to work.
10. Birth of greater talent pool: All this will let employers hire more talented people from a wider talent pool. Rather than hiring the best person in a 30-kms-radius, they can hire the best person in the world for most of the roles.
11. Birth of Remote culture: More and more employers will decide to be more remote than their competitors otherwise they will land up losing top talent to their competitors.
12. Death of Hierarchies: Middle management is in trouble in the remote and async organizations. New types of leadership will be managers who lead with empathy and inspire rather than command and control.
13. Birth of new Performance benchmarks: No more hours of hours spenmt will be the measure of performance and dedication. The measure of performance will be quality and speed of output.
14. Birth of hobbies: Remote working will lead to a rise in employees participating in hobbies and local community activities. Employers will have to organize and promote such activities.
15. Death of Bias: Diversity and Inclusiveness in hiring will emerge rapidly. Employers who embrace it will attract apt talent better and faster. Those who don’t will lose out to competitors.
16. Birth of Remote disruption: New disruptions will focus on converting a physical workforce to a remote work force – saving loads of time, cost and increasing opportunities for the company.
17. Birth of Shortcut: Use of AI & automated processes will shorten time and effort taken for a particular task and decrease errors, especially in repeat tasks this will lead to explosion in efficiencies and productivity.

What other trend do you anticipate in next 3 years?