#FlexWorking

[stevishabitat]

So many ordinary objects and experiences have become technologized—made dependent on computers, sensors, and other apparatuses meant to improve them—that they have also ceased to work in their usual manner. It’s common to think of such defects as matters of bad design. That’s true, in part. But technology is also more precarious than it once was. Unstable, and unpredictable. At least from the perspective of human users. From the vantage point of technology, if it can be said to have a vantage point, it's evolving separately from human use. “Precarity” has become a popular way to refer to economic and labor conditions that force people—and particularly low-income service workers—into uncertainty. Temporary labor and flexwork offer examples. That includes hourly service work in which schedules are adjusted ad-hoc and just-in-time, so that workers don’t know when or how often they might be working. For low-wage food service and retail workers, for instance, that uncertainty makes budgeting and time-management difficult. Arranging for transit and childcare is difficult, and even more costly, for people who don’t know when—or if—they’ll be working. Such conditions are not new. As union-supported blue-collar labor declined in the 20th century, the service economy took over its mantle absent its benefits. But the information economy further accelerated precarity. For one part, it consolidated existing businesses and made efficiency its primary concern. For another, economic downturns like the 2008 global recession facilitated austerity measures both deliberate and accidental. Immaterial labor also rose—everything from the unpaid, unseen work of women in and out of the workplace, to creative work done on-spec or for exposure, to the invisible work everyone does to construct the data infrastructure that technology companies like Google and Facebook sell to advertisers. But as it has expanded, economic precarity has birthed other forms of instability and unpredictability—among them the dubious utility of ordinary objects and equipment.

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The more technology multiplies, the more it amplifies instability. Things already don’t quite do what they claim. The fixes just make things worse. And so, ordinary devices aren’t likely to feel more workable and functional as technology marches forward. If anything, they are likely to become even less so. Technology’s role has begun to shift, from serving human users to pushing them out of the way so that the technologized world can service its own ends. And so, with increasing frequency, technology will exist not to serve human goals, but to facilitate its own expansion. This might seem like a crazy thing to say. What other purpose do toilets serve than to speed away human waste? No matter its ostensible function, precarious technology separates human actors from the accomplishment of their actions. They acclimate people to the idea that devices are not really there for them, but as means to accomplish those devices own, secret goals. This truth has been obvious for some time. Facebook and Google, so the saying goes, make their users into their products—the real customer is the advertiser or data speculator preying on the information generated by the companies’ free services. But things are bound to get even weirder than that.

[kamalkafir-blog]

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[wirthconsulting]

New HP Wolf Security Portfolio for Protecting Hybrid Workers, Printers, PCs

New HP Wolf Security Portfolio for Protecting Hybrid Workers, Printers, PCs

Actor Christian Slater stars in a new series of ads promoting HP’s new Wolf Security portfolio. Addressing today’s hybrid workforce – with some employees working at home, others at the office, or a combination of both – HP Inc. today introduced HP Wolf Security Wolf Security includes a new portfolio of “secure by design PCs and printers,” hardware-enforced endpoint security software, and endpoint…

[stoweboyd]

Flexwork Pays

In Work in America Is Greedy. But It Doesn’t Have to Be., Claire Cain Miller discovers that in a tight job market, more employers are finding that offering flextime (of various flavors) leads to attracting and retaining workers.

At Credigy, a finance company near Atlanta, any worker can arrive late, leave early or work from home, no questions asked, as long as the work gets done — and even the members of the senior leadership team do so. It’s a different world from most professional services companies, which require long hours in the office.

At Miss B’s Cafe in Louisburg, Kan., servers collaborate on their schedules so they can fill in for anyone who needs a day off, and the kitchen manager bakes brunch pastries the evening before so she can attend yoga on weekend mornings. It’s unlike many service-sector jobs, in which schedules can be assigned at the last minute.

The long and unpredictable hours that have resulted from America’s obsession with work have spread from the so-called greedy professions, like law, finance and consulting, to many other jobs, both salaried and hourly. It’s a major driver of gender inequality: The increasing wage premiums of long hours have pushed many couples with equal educations to take on unequal roles, because if they’re parents, they can’t be on call at work unless someone else is on call at home.

[…]

Driven by competition for workers, more employers have begun offering these benefits (while still providing stable wages and benefits, unlike in the gig economy). Sixty-eight percent allow workers to telecommute as needed, up from 54 percent in 2014, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. Twenty-seven percent offer the flexibility to work outside normal business hours, up from 22 percent.

“For the last 10 years, employers have been used to having it all their own way,” said Martha Gimbel, an economist at Indeed, the job search site. “In a tight labor market, they’re having to compete in a way they’re not used to.”

I was having a conversation recently with Steve Power, the Global President of Deputy, a company that provides a staff management toolkit. In a different aspect of flexwork, we were discussing the topic of how much of a headache last-minute scheduling is for hourly workers, in retail, food service, hospitality and other markets. Power pointed out that in a very tight employment market employers were being pushed to make changes in order to retain workers who could walk across the street to get another job.

One of those changes is making schedules farther in advance, and greater openness to workers having a say in who they work with. Apparently, they are wising up to the reality that workers are happier when working with friends rather than strangers or those they don't like. That might be as big an incentive as higher pay, and the evidence shows self-formed work teams are the most productive.

[pluraljobs]

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[abspeckblog]

83,5kg und Erfolg kommen schubweise

83,5kg und Erfolg kommen schubweise

Es hat mich mühselige Monate harter Arbeit als Wandermissionar hinter den Kulissen gekostet, bis alle Personen an der entscheidenden Stelle irgendwie eine ähnliche Idee hatten und dann sich dann ein kleiner Spalt geöffnet hat, durch den dann die Chefin von Alleine gegangen ist. Ich arbeite demnächst mobil als Flexworker. Mein Büro wird aufgelöst, mein Zweitwohnzimmer verschwindet nach 17 Jahren…

[premierdjservice]

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[lauraessensworld]

𝑳𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆ñ𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒖 𝒅í𝒂 𝒂 𝒅í𝒂🌻☀️𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆 𝒉á𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝒀 𝒕𝒖 𝒚𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒐𝒔? 𝑻𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒐 𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔 👇 . . . . . . #objetivos #metas #motivacion #estilodevida #sueños #desarrollopersonal #españa #reto #crecimientopersonal #exito #madrid #frases #emprendedores #constancia #barcelona #inspiracion #retos #influencer #flexwork #emprendedor #trabajo #resultados #instaphoto #essens #emprendimiento (en Calafell, Cataluna, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLl7kpFlXC6/?igshid=181tqeqlm5skd

[saskiaeigenwijsz]

Eventjes werken in een omgeving waar niemand tegen me praat,waar ik geen klusjes voel roepen in mijn hoofd. #flexwork#urbanlife#insiration#motivated#passion#liveyourdream#besuccesful#jasmintea#redvelvetcake

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[birabeero]

having a quiet moment of gratitude while i nosh on this froyo. a year ago I was tentatively stepping out of my safe-but-not-entirely-fulfilling salaried job doing communications gruntwork at a labor union and into the uncertain world of flexible, freelance, and remote work. 

i started by teaching ESL classes online, nervous both about teaching and at the prospect of staying in this placeholder job for longer than i wanted to. since then i’ve gradually switched over to writing and editing full-time. i’m visiting with family this week, traveling to dc in a couple weeks, planning a trip to ecuador for the late fall, and gearing up move back to nyc after the summer. all the while, every month, my ratio of copywriting-to-pay-the-bills assignments vs. blogging-about-things-i-care-deeply-about assignments shifts a little bit more toward the latter. friends and loved ones turn to me for advice about how to get started freelancing, and i actually feel qualified to answer their questions.

it’s easy to focus on the speedbumps and detours, so i’m real grateful to wonderfully positive loved ones like @avilociraptor and @loveisgreaterthanfear who remind me to periodically meditate on the very-real progress i’ve made and use it to fuel faith in future growth. hopefully next spring i’ll be meditating on how this time last year i was still writing more webpages than blogs and had barely performed professionally yet. or maybe i’ll be thinking about how small my 401k was in 2017, or how few countries i’d visited. either way, it’s nice to document and sit in my optimism every once in awhile.

[techcree]

Home oder Office?

Wer kann wo arbeiten und ist der Begriff Home Office überhaupt noch zeitgemäß? Oder muss es eigentlich Flexwork lauten?

Home Office hat sich im Laufe der Zeit als eher negativ belegter Begriff entwickelt. Viele Arbeitnehmer und auch gerade Arbeitgeber können mit Home Office eigentlich nicht so recht etwas anfangen. Viele Themen hängen daran. Arbeitszeiterfassung, Mitarbeiterkontrolle, Störungen durch das private Umfeld. Die Probleme sind umfangreich. und gerade bei uns in Deustchland hat sich das Arbeiten von Zuhause nicht so recht durchsetzen können.

Technologisch ist es heute nicht mehr so ein echtes Problem. Solange man eine gute Internetverbindung zur Verfügung hat, ist die Welt eigentlich aus dieser Sicht in Ordnung. Gerade das Thema Arbeitszeit ist hier ein Kernproblem. Wie sehr übernimmt dann der job auch das was wir eigentlich als Freizeit definiern. Wo können wir dann die Grenze ziehen.

Ist es nur ein Thema von Bürotätigkeiten? Naja, eine Leitplanke auf einer Autobahn montiert man nicht von Zuhause aus. Auch ein Auto kann man aus dem Zuhause nicht mit Kollegen zusammenbauen und auch ein Haus baut sich so nicht. Es bleibt also insofern doch eine bestimmten Berufsgruppe vorenthalten. Jedenfalls solange Roboter den Job nicht vorort übernehmen können. Ein Punkt aber sind flexible Arbeitszeiten.

Hier ist es letztlich nur eine Frage der Planung. Wann ist wer am Ort des Geschehens und kann ggf. auch aus der Ferne Dinge erledigen. Und die Frage ist auch wann und warum macht es Sinn sich nicht in einem Firmengebäude treffen zu müssen um zu Arbeiten. Sicher ist es auch ein Thema von Umwelt- und Klimaschutz. Viele müssten den Weg in ein Bürogebäude nicht machen und sich dazu jeden Tag auf längere Fahrten in ein Auto setzen, um den Weg zur Arbeit oder dann nach Hause zurück zu bewältigen. Allein Bürogebäude sind wenig sinnvoll um unsere Umwelt zu schützen.

Felxwork - könnte das Schlagwort der Zukunft werden um unsere Art und Weise produktiv zu sein besser zu beschreiben. Und mal ganz ehrlich! Keine will mit dem Laptop am Strand sitzen. Coworking Büros in die man sich kurze Zeit einmietet könnten hier die Lösung der Zukunft sein. Ein weltweites Netz von quasi Orten, die man aufsuchen kann um für ein paar Stunden in Ruhe arbeiten zu können oder sich auf ein Meeting zu treffen bzw. sich mit einem Kollegen/in oder Kunden zu treffen.

Es sind vor allem die Arbeitgeber, die hier die Bereitschaft entwickeln müssen neue Wege zu gehen.

[surveycircle]

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