"I believe that 90% of white-collar jobs in the
US will be either destroyed or altered beyond
recognition in the next 10 to 15 years," wrote Tom
Peters
In his article "What will we do for work?" in Time
magazine datelined May 22, 2000, Tom Peters
postulated the following five forces would affect
this change.
- Competition as in the destructive nature
of its current flavor, dotcoms.
- Enterprise Software, such as SAP
applications in the guise of nightmarish "white-collar
robots".
- Outsourcing work making countries such as
India performing backroom white-collar jobs for
western companies.
- The Web hooking up B2B e-commerce
squeezing out the middlemen between suppliers and
buyers.
- Time Compression, what used to take 40
years, now took 4 years, such as getting The Web to
almost every home.
"But [Dilbert]'s a hapless victim too.
Damned if I'm going to be." Tom Peters ended his
article with.
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