The rapid changes in technology, work patterns and demographics are ushering in a new era for the labor market known as the future workforce.
Don’t Let Developer Toil Affect the Business Value of Your Apps
It is no surprise that the world today is driven by apps. Organizations all over the world are basing their business goals on their capacity to integrate new apps quickly, and they need to constantly reimagine how they interact with and communicate with their consumers and employees to fulfill changing expectations. To do this effectively, […]
Full-Time Employment in the Age of Automation
Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” in which he predicted that in a hundred years the 15-hour work week will be commonplace. Keynes made this assertion based on two factors: first, the increase in capital due to extraordinary yields from the compound interest that […]
Automation: This Time, It’s Different
It took about 200,000 years for mankind to be able to figure out how to get an airplane to fly. The event took place Dec. 17, 1903, on a field in Kitty Hawk, N.C., when Wilbur Wright piloted the airplane he had made with his brother, Orville, into the air. The flight lasted for 12 […]
Four Inspiration-Killing Concepts That Need Redefining
Software engineering is a creative process, and creativity cannot be measured by the hour. It can be measured only by the value of the contribution. Yet, a majority of companies still measure productivity by hourly contributions. Companies treat the development process as if it still existed in the days of the assembly line, and all […]