New+Style+Of+Work

**__A growing concern:__**
With growing technology demands, it becomes ever clear that we cannot use the same format of work that we used the years before. The world has become more connected than ever. With growing technology people can now communicate with anyone, anywhere and at any time. For exampe the greatest communication is computers. People use the internet for emails. Students research document for school. Because of this growing demand, we now need a better; more efficient; more different way of doing work and businesses. We also need to take a good look at the economy and how we create, and manufacture products. Even though everything has run fairly smoothly so far, we can not expect this idea of sending raw materials away to foreign countries to poor people to manufacture our goods. With this new era of connectivity, we need a better way of dealing with business; we need a new work strategy.

One of the things we should consider is to start manufacturing things right on our soil. It is not a good idea to make it look like we are using other peoples land and using another nation’s people to make our products and the country does not get anything back. We should give the country and the people that are doing all of our work more benefits, or we should just get out of the country and use some of our soil to make our products.

To save this world from numerous wars breaking out because of unfair rights, we need a new set of requirements. We need a group of laws not only governed in our country, but in other countries as well. These laws would make life for the average foreign and native worker better, giving them more benefits and more rights. This brings up another concern; the millions of illegal immigrants that come over our border every year. While the people in the White House are trying to stop this immigrating crisis by making our borders even more secure, we should be trying to stop the need for people to come over our borders because the only reason they come here is to get new work and to make more money. It is not suggested that we pull all of our factories in foreign countries, but what we need to do is to make all those factories better and easier for the hard workers across the border. This includes no sweatshops, no slave labor, better pay, more rights, less strict policies, and enforcement of all of these laws. So far all attempts for equal labor have been futile. While we pat ourselves on the back for things like Starbucks fair trade labor and Nike's "non-slave labor" tactics, there are thousands of other companies that use these horrible techniques to make their products. We need to look at every company's tactics on labor and stop them from doing horrible things to people.

Work has developed greatly over the centuries. We now have the opportunity to see our employment as a series of successive contracts where our relationship with each employer or organization is a transactional arrangement. This negotiated agreement lasts only as long as there is a need for specific work to be done. We can, therefore, be portfolio careerists where we have a portfolio of skills and a portfolio of clients.

Instead of entering a hierarchical arrangement of job positions, we can be engaged to accomplish specific tasks. We no longer have to fill a position but instead match our skills with contract requirements. We used to search for a "job box" we could fit into. Now we search for a niche—a custom-fit solution to an employer's need.

In portfolio working we derive our work satisfaction from accomplishing tasks and the intrinsic motivation that a completed task gives. We can string together a series of work engagements using our different attributes and different sets of skills, knowledge, and interests. We can rearrange our employability offerings many times, in packages of differing content according to our inclination, personal circumstances, and the labor market situation. We can frequently re-cluster and repackage our skills to meet new opportunities.

In portfolio working, we can be engaged as a contractor, job sharer, freelancer, temporary hire, free agent, or casual employee. We can grow personally without depending on one organization and we can exercise our new freedom to undertake assignments compatible with our values. We give our allegiance to our professional skills and standards. We are focused on our lifestyle, with a symbiotic relationship of consumerism and an ethic to contribute to work with meaning.

Sometimes we may work as a satellite worker from or near our home, online through our computers and modems, on client's sites, or in a different country from where we are deriving our income.

Portfolio working requires that we acquire and develop: • skills of self-marketing • our use of the web to alert others to our availability • detective and networking skills to identify opportunities • discipline to update our resume both print and electronic versionsÑeach month as it becomes as important to a portfolio worker as a passport is to a traveler

In fact, portfolio working is not new. It is how people earned their incomes before the 19th century.

Taken from http://www.goinglobal.com/hot_topics/australia_stevens_portfolio.asp