Globalization
The globalisation of work - and people
Viewpoint by Prof Lynda Gratton Director, Future of Work Consortium Little big planet: As a result of connectivity and globalisation millions of jobs across the world are disappearing, according to Lynda Gratton What is fundamentally transforming work is extraordinary connectivity.
In the near future, at least five billion people around the world will use some form of mobile device to download information, access knowledge and coach and teach each other.Some will have the intellectual capacity and motivation to really make something of this opportunity, wherever they happen to be born.These people will want to join the global talent pool and, if possible, migrate to creative and vibrant cities.By doing so, this vast crowd of talented people will increasingly compete with each other, continuously upping the stakes for what it takes to succeed.It seems to me that this will impact all of us in three ways - the hollowing out of work, the globalisation of virtual work, and the rise of the 'transnational'.
Globalisation of virtual work
The West's positional advantage in educating its population will be rapidly eroded even for higher skilled jobs as online education platforms like MIT's OpenCourseWare, Open Yale, iTunes U and Khan Academy connect students in vast numbers, whilst enabling them to have very similar learning experiences and work towards similar qualifications. fulfilling a childhood fantasy … Chaudhuri moved to Calcutta, later Kolkata, in 1999. Photograph: Peter Dench/Alamy
I was in Berlin at the end of 2005 when my agent called and asked me if I'd write a book on Calcutta. It was a work of non-fiction he wanted: Indian non-fiction was going to be the new Indian fiction. I declined, saying, "I'd rather write
Viewpoint by Prof Lynda Gratton Director, Future of Work Consortium Little big planet: As a result of connectivity and globalisation millions of jobs across the world are disappearing, according to Lynda Gratton What is fundamentally transforming work is extraordinary connectivity.
In the near future, at least five billion people around the world will use some form of mobile device to download information, access knowledge and coach and teach each other.Some will have the intellectual capacity and motivation to really make something of this opportunity, wherever they happen to be born.These people will want to join the global talent pool and, if possible, migrate to creative and vibrant cities.By doing so, this vast crowd of talented people will increasingly compete with each other, continuously upping the stakes for what it takes to succeed.It seems to me that this will impact all of us in three ways - the hollowing out of work, the globalisation of virtual work, and the rise of the 'transnational'.
Globalisation of virtual work
The West's positional advantage in educating its population will be rapidly eroded even for higher skilled jobs as online education platforms like MIT's OpenCourseWare, Open Yale, iTunes U and Khan Academy connect students in vast numbers, whilst enabling them to have very similar learning experiences and work towards similar qualifications. fulfilling a childhood fantasy … Chaudhuri moved to Calcutta, later Kolkata, in 1999. Photograph: Peter Dench/Alamy
I was in Berlin at the end of 2005 when my agent called and asked me if I'd write a book on Calcutta. It was a work of non-fiction he wanted: Indian non-fiction was going to be the new Indian fiction. I declined, saying, "I'd rather write