When you look at the corporate glass towers, co-working warehouses and small businesses around the world, the current model of how work is being organized starts to fail, accelerated by the recent economic crisis.

The notion of having to fit into mutually non-sustainable long-term relationships doesn’t work anymore. No matter if you’re young and can’t grasp the very nature of years in the same 9-to-whatever pigeon hole, or older and see the promise of life long constant employment fading away: It’s not what you’re looking for and certainly not what you expected. And why should it?

Work wise, the i|nput as well as the o|utput are often flat out broken. Things got so overly complex that a static workforce can’t possibly have the breadth to keep the company moving forward. And even the best employers have a hard time providing single jobs that are sufficiently engaging to find, motivate and retain the talent they’d need. And yet we keep cramping work into those years long relationships in the hope that it magically will get better.
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