#61: Web 3 & Advances To Freelancers? 30% Of US Quitting In 2022? Sheeeesh.
As almost half of millennials look for new jobs and inflation roars, 'future of work' related job titles are the new buzz according to Jena McGregor of Forbes.
Important Updates:
What’s our take for each update? Enjoy on Apple Podcasts or below!
💩 According to Josh Bersin, “If you believe the BLS statistics (which are based on surveys), almost a third of the US workforce will “quit” this year, amounting to more than 4 million people every month”.
💩💩 About half of millennials are looking for a new job. Why? Higher pay, remote flexibility, and whatever career advancement means. If you’re one of these millennials, have you tried freelancing on the side?
🚩 55% of remote workers would consider leaving their job if asked back before they feel safe according to a poll by Morning Consult.
🙌 NYC Proposes Transparency Pay law. Cute, but freelancing inherently has this.
🚀 Remember when only the rebel’s had a ‘future of work’ related job title (mine at Microsoft was literally PM: Future of Work)? Well…there’s been a 60% increase in job titles related to the future of work and a 304% spike in titles that reference “hybrid work” since the pandemic began according to Jena McGregor of Forbes.
🤔 GIG Pool uses Tinlake, an open DeFi protocol and marketplace for real-world asset pools, to provide payment advances to freelancers (shoutout to Martin for sending us this!). Very interesting concept…but seems like techies promising the world without understanding it.
The Future of Work is a 60 year career according to data from a Stanford longevity study.
This Week’s 2022 Predictions
Trend 5: We’ll See Globally Distributed Micro-Communities (the real Metaverse)
2022 will be the year of shifting from default colleagues to chosen collaborators. The reason is because the remote, contract nature of the Human Cloud enables deep relationships built around impact.
Trend 6: The continued rise of freelancers.
This one’s pretty simple - the number of freelancers grew 34%, from 38.2 million to 51.1 million in the US, and we expect this number to stay between 30-40% in 2022.
Want to be featured on The Human Cloud Podcast?
We’re booking for March. If you’re freelancing, hiring freelancers, or tapping into technology to ethically shape the Future of Work we want to talk with you!
Don’t worry if you don’t have a personal brand or following. We actually prefer that since you’re probably busy driving change :)