The end of work as we know it
JOBLESS, BUT NOT WORKLESS, is the wave of the future, says James R. Ziegler. As
executive director of the Pleasant Valley, Calif.-based Professional Association of
Contract Employees (PACE), Ziegler is onto something. The Internet economy may finally
put to sleep an Industrial Age dinosaur: the permanent job. Recent dot-com downsizings
in the wake of the Wall Street meltdown demonstrate that the term permanent position is
an illusion. All jobs, whether by design or not, are temporary.
If permanent is no longer so, then does impermanent describe the state of IT work
today? Possibly, experts say. The fastest-growing labor classification in the IT
industry is the so-called contingent workforce: the army of free-lancers, consultants,
contractors, free agents, and part-timers who fill the trenches, at least occasionally
and very often regularly, in virtually every high-tech enterprise. "The temporary
worker market has become the primary means of hiring for much of the technology and
support job categories," says Peter Yessne, publisher of the Staffing Industry Report
newsletter.
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What with the iPhones and BlackBerrys and IM and email and (oh yeah) the telephone, there's a pretty good chance that every iota of productivity has been squeezed out of your communications stream. So it seems like a good opportunity to take a step back and look at some ways technology is being used to help people who really do have trouble communicating.
AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, its infrastructure produced unacceptable power and cooling requirements. Find out how AISO leveraged AMD technology to overcome their challenge in this case study white paper.
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