What will the office of the future look like? We all know the future of the office will never be the same as before COVID-19 pandemic.
It is surprising to see after the great resignation happens, whether voluntary or being used under the umbrella term of voluntary, those that are forced to leave need to land in a new world. Hybrid workplace is here to stay forever, enterprises across the globe are mobilising resources to implement digital workspace, or anywhere workspace has been the top priority to make sure the enterprise is once again, digital transformation into modern workspace and future of work now, in the accelerated manner.
The more news and media coverage on the modern workspace, to force mandatory return to work or let some jobs be eliminated forever, or shift the headquarters into completely different locations to facilitate modern workspace and future of work for every employee now and future.
For those who are just too comfortable stay in home and forgot for the days work in the office for, and not willing to do so follow and adapt the new mega trend for the modern workspace, hybrid workplace practices and all the new emerging technologies that follow, they are most likely will be first few batch of target employee to be let go first.
Follow the Metaverse (formerly Facebook), Netflix and the rest who are reporting for the revenue fallings and freezing hiring and in the process for downsizing, we expect to see more giant companies take the steps. Same things we saw in the mighty China tech and media company massive layoffs to make sure the corporation operates within the budget or in the lean manner.
With the US continuing to raise the interest to attract more global fund inflow over, and the rest of the countries mostly raising their debt via the USD currency, will feel the strong pressure for the accelerated growth in the debt, due to more local currency being required to convert into USD. Global inflation and the impact is not just for the US, but impacts globally. This is why we saw the country that has been marked after Sri Lanka’s recent bankruptcy, those that are facing very high levels of interest rate and inflation, which are highly likelihood to trigger the context very similar to before the 2007 global financial crisis. One fall will trigger for the rest to follow.
Modern workspace practice includes leverage the modern digital workspace, allowing employees to work anywhere, anytime to get things done. If you are not yet riding on these new mega trends, it is time to look into. Modern digital workspace is beyond just the conventional laptop or desktop, it includes smartphones, tablets, IoT devices and all kinds of Kiosk, including the smart watch you wear for the position locating. Time zone is been break for a long time, as the world moving toward project economy, it about how the enterprise capable to mobilising talent and resources across the globe to get the meaningful project be accomplish that matter. Automation technology has been expanded, not just the mere machine learning, artificial intelligence, it has been deeply deployed into various enterprises and contexts, be it chatbot, robotics process automation (RPA), DevSecOps, dataOps, netOps. As the world transitions toward the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) industrial 4.0, we expect to see more automation technologies be introduced and adapted into production, where half of it is handled by robotics and artificial intelligence is just the conservative measure. As the trend goes, the world will be experiencing a period of time for mismatch for the job market supply, where a massive number of workers do not possess what is needed and require re-skilling or need the new competency that is needed to get hired.
Merely knowing about Microsoft office and some standard off-the-shelf software (OFTS) does not make you stand out. It is the era for cloud computing engineering that matters, same goes for the docker container and K8s for the modern infrastructure, and if you do not possess those modern competencies, the older and senior you are, the more risky you will be completely lost touch with the market.
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