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While this topic remains the core issue that all companies and employers around the world are trying to solve for, conversely, its getting harder and harder to achieve. Economies are slowing down, hiring is not where it used to be and employers are turning the screws on employees to get more out of each worker.

As new jobs are getting harder to score, conditions at almost all workplaces are deteriorating with more expectations around self-management, meeting tighter deadlines and fewer days off. Nothing has changed on paper, but the expectations from each employee certainly have.

The problem of getting work done is slowly being sidelined, and focus seems to be shifting towards volume of work being accomplished, as industries rely more and more on hard working employees positioned in key impact areas to drive growth. I think this is where the effect of hard work being rewarded with more hard work to accomplish is stemming from. As employers, who are, let’s say, the top 10% of earners at any organisation, know less about what the future holds and are stumped by the amount of information that’s online, they’re sacrificing the “how” for the “what.”

Insecurities in these massive amounts are wreaking havoc with the daily lives of the workers around the world, who constitute more of the world’s population by far. This in turn is impacting the next generation and the stress levels induced by jobs today is untenable to the younger generation who cannot find jobs anyway.

None of this says anything good about us who live on this planet as a community. I also don’t think its optimistic to think of ourselves as a global community, it is the reality of the world we are living in. All large firms spend hundreds of thousands of USD on networking and conferences precisely to understand what everyone is doing to alleviate today’s work life issues. With the advent of the internet and paid content, you can now sit at the comfort of your home and watch replays of these events even if your firm is not yet financially in a place to attend these conferences.

More to follow, stay tuned.