The Future of Work: A Manifesto
The future of work starts right here, right now.
This manifesto is about the future of work in an emerging ideology of business, where people are at the center of a human ecosystem instead of boxed into a mechanical system.
Heard the phrase, “the future is already here—it’s just unevenly distributed”? We all have the social capital to help fix that.
Let’s talk about the things that human beings bring to the table in a work environment. Let’s leverage our human attributes and make people and all of their whole selves the fuel that makes organizations and businesses grow and flourish. Let’s unleash our power as networked individuals. Let’s make Dilbert cartoons and The Office something we can enjoy as the relics of a past industrial, mechanical age. Let’s stop work from sucking. Let’s empower ourselves and each other to make our lives, and thereby our societies, better.
Some truths we wish to be self-evident:
- Work matters. We want work to suck less—for everyone, not just the few lucky ones.
- The distinction between “work” and “life” is artificial and a barrier to leveraging both the power of the individual and that of the organization.
- Work is the expending of effort for the creation of value…
