March 2018 | People Strong

As a young kid, when I came across the saying “Something is better than Nothing” the “Ambitionist” in me refused to believe that I had to accept anything lesser than “Everything”. After all, the opposite of Nothing is Everything right? But as you grow up, you understand the power of the word “Something”.

It is the gig wave that will democratize work in true sense, where the opportunity to work would be up for grabs to anyone who has the capabilities — gig is going to be the new way of work.

Employment would be defined by a unit(s) of work which multiple people could deliver on and not by Job Descriptions.

The global employment rates for skilled, and unskilled labour across the world have seen huge waves of volatility. A McKinsey report says that almost 46% of existing jobs will either partially change or completely cease to exist by the year 2021. That by itself is an alarming fact but when the same report also claims that about 40% of employees will have ‘non-traditional’ employee contracts, the real truth about the fragility of the employment market emerges.