Work changes and society changes as well. For three years, debates over his future have not subsided, fueled by debate on digital technologies, self-employment, multi-function and global income or issues of new patterns of governance, solidarity and governance. Focusing on employment, labor practices or management, these discussions have one advantage: to highlight the multiple possibilities for the future of work.

Business Climate

In the latest papers entitled "The Future of Work in 2030: Four Climate for Action", the International Network of Collaborative Space Research offers a multifaceted view of the future of work. We begin by presenting eight striking paradoxes in current work and management practices. These paradoxes highlight the tensions and dilemmas that constitute the essence of labor shifts: mobility versus a stable lifestyle, entrepreneurship vs. dependency, freedom versus security, independence vs. control, digital versus intangible, .

On this basis, we restore the concept of a simple and contradictory work environment to explain the nature of work in the present and future. The work environment refers to the environment, context, atmosphere and everything that is difficult to describe in the work environment. At the same time, its components are very concrete: initiatives, tools, places, practices, feelings, emotions, etc. The work environment is "semi-physical" and senses the lights, words, sounds and structure that mediate our relationship with work. The business climate is defined as the place and time of business activities.


So we have developed four scenarios related to four specific business climates, to look at the world of work by 2030:


Freelancing

- A community consisting mainly of self-employed and independent employees associated with global platforms.

- The transformation is in remittances, as the climate becomes fluid in the sense that sociologist Zygmunt Bauman described. [1]

Fixed Salary (Salaried)

- represents a world in which work with a salary is the central mode of action. Where permanent and fixed-term contracts are subject to legal developments, but remain at the core of employment and employment.

- Transformation is a contract that is not subject to these developments, as the climate becomes localized and entrenched.

Hybridization

- represents an additional separation from current operating conditions. In this scenario each person maintains different jobs or reciprocal periods of paid and entrepreneurial work at the same time and tirelessly. The working environment becomes a set of sensations alternating and synchronized.

- The transformation is reversible, and is the management of "several selves". For some, this environment is like schizophrenia.

Universal income

Is a situation in which the meaning of the mover on the work has precedence over the performance and position of the employee. Paid employment and entrepreneurship continue to exist as a margin of general interdependence. The work environment is characterized by acts of giving and self-discovery (2).


Of course, these scenarios and associated climates can be combined; so we can imagine the joint development of self-employment and paid work alongside the circulation of fixed-term contracts. It seems that the scenarios of self-employment and universal basic income are compatible for us. We have four possible practical and emotional scenarios, we can play them to put ourselves in the future.

To confirm this belief, we believe that the future of the work will be full of surprises and will creatively overlap with the developments we have just mentioned. However, the major paradoxes and administrative challenges outlined in this research note will remain important in determining the balance to be achieved by society over the next 10 years.


Are "business climates" a future or not?

Imagine this dialogue in one of the summer evenings of 2025 in Place de la Comedie in Montpellier, where Freilancia, Salaria, Hiberdia and Soldaria began a deep debate. These four female characters embody the four scenarios (each one named the climate of the above). It is a script excerpt:

"Three years ago, I was still working for my own self, remember, I started this little collaborative artwork after high school, but I think you are very resistant to things, Frillansia! Why do not you make and eat your cake, enjoy freedom and safety?"

Freelance (free): "There are only twenty-four hours a day, with another activity at the same time, I will feel like I was cheating on my first activity."


"You do not want to spend the rest of your life selling nonsense," she said, "you have been a consultant and a catalyst for innovation. Now you are the head of internal relations, what next step do you want to do something more beneficial to you and others?"

Salaria (permanent) : "I can not live on love and fresh air like you, I raise two children and I know how much it will cost their education ... I want them to have a first class education that will give them a modest income that you have depended on in your early years."

The paper proceeds with greater insight into the technological aspects behind these scenarios, and discusses the links between artificial intelligence and action (beyond the question of employment). Using a metaphor from Ancient Egypt and Michael Sears, it is suggested to consider the smartphone of the future worker and artificial intelligence as Ka, and the old Egyptian myth is the soul that replaces the Pharaonic statue after the death of its owner, that is, as alternatives to man, which raises a number of ethical issues .

In conclusion, far from succumbing to the temptations of the ball of the reader of crystalline vision or dystopia, our research aims to shed light on options for our lives, technological uses, old and new forms of work, voting and civic engagement that will make some scenarios for the future work possible or crashing from now on.

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[1] For more information on the theory of zigmont bauman you can read "fluid group .. your way to Bauman's theory of sociology".

[2] Comprehensive basic income: a fixed amount sufficient for the requirements of life, provided by the state to all its citizens regardless of income or status of employment.

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Translation: (Alaa Abu Rumaila)

This report is translated from The Conversation and does not necessarily reflect the location of Medan.