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Research from the UK Work Foundation found that the main cause of the 2.6 million people on long term sickness and incapacity benefit is workplace stress, costing the tax payer billions of pounds every year. Our current command and control organisational model is literally killing people. Recent research by McKinsey & Company indicates that "half or more of a company's spending on labour may be devoted to basic interaction activities, many of them internal to the organisation". Again corroborated by other UK Work Foundation research finding that non-productive interactions in many organisations exceed 60%. Most Western economies face a wide range of issues related to ageing populations and the retirement costs of baby boombers. Many blue chip companies cannot replace the talent that will exit their companies in the next 5-10 years, and have not considered the possibility of retaining them on demand, deploying them in a fractional way that allows the 'ex-employee' to choose their unique work/retirement balance. How much more pain does everyone have to be in before these new organisational approaches are adopted by organisations of every kind? Why aren't they doing it now?An older piece here.
Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts, and Chair of the new MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Allan lectures around the world and at professional conferences including IDSA, AIGA and IxDA, has been a guest critic at various design schools in including Yale University, IIT, Carnegie Mellon, Ravensbourne, RMIT, University of Minnesota, Emily Carr, and RISD. He has moderated and led workshops and symposia at the Aspen Design Conference, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Compost Modern, and Winterhouse, and is a frequent design competition juror. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, and The One Club.
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Fractional Work. The next small thing?
small business blog Most Western economies face a wide range of issues related to ageing populations and the retirement costs of baby boombers. Many blue chip companies cannot replace the talent that will exit their companies in the next 5-10 years, and have not considered the possibility of retaining them on demand, deploying them in a fractional way that allows the 'ex-employee' to choose their unique work/retirement balance. How much more pain does everyone have to be in before these new organisational approaches are adopted by small business blog