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5 trends driving the future of work
As the year draws to a close, you may be assessing your career plans against the backdrop of holiday hoopla and the uncertain employment climate. To get a leg up, grab an eggnog and read on to learn about trends that could change how you’ll be making a living in the years to come: Trend 1: Independent consulting to see hockey-stick growth curve According to a new study from MBO Partners , a company offering services to independent consultants, by 2013, the number of independent workers in America is expected to grow from 16 million to more than 20 million. By 2020, that figure could climb to include more than half of U.S. workers, leading to a new independent majority comprised of freelancers, consultants and other independent workers.
55-Hour Week?
Research shows that consistently working more than 40 hours a week is simply unproductive. For many in the entrepreneurship game, long hours are a badge of honor. Starting a business is tough, so all those late nights show how determined, hard working and serious about making your business work you are, right? Wrong. According to a handful of studies, consistently clocking over 40 hours a week just makes you unproductive (and very, very tired). That's bad news for most workers, who typically put in at least 55 hours a week, recently wrote Sara Robinson at Salon .
7 Things Highly Productive People Do
Flickr/ryantron You probably don’t want to admit it but you love distractions. In fact, just like monkeys, you get a shot of dopamine every time something pulls you in another direction. Why do you think you check your email so much? Want to be more productive and get your focus back?
More by Doing Less - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review
Two people of equal skill work in the same office. For the sake of comparison, let's say both arrive at work at 9 am each day, and leave at 7 pm. Bill works essentially without stopping, juggling tasks at his desk and running between meetings all day long.
Time Management Books
This is my collection of the best time management books out there. Each book has given me at least one and often several valuable thoughts for my own solutions. The books in this group are not directly time management books , but they discuss valuable skills that benefit you in some way that increases efficiency in life. There is also an opinion of time management at The Dilbert Blog If you read one or several of the time management books in this group, feel free to drop me a line and tell me how you liked them!Useful Tools for Gmail
Useful Tools for Gmail There’re a lot of ways to to extend and enhance Gmail web service. We offer you a list of excellent tools that can not only change the outlook of your account, but also add some useful functions. gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible across the Internet. The product is designed to run on the Mac OS X 10.3 (or higher). gFeeder is a small ticker application which allows you to see what’s in your Gmail inbox at-a-glance.
Gmail is the best email client around, and chances are you use it all day, every day. It's also filled with tricks, shortcuts, and time-saving tools you can use to kick the crap out of your email. Today, we're going into exhaustive overdrive, covering all our favorite Gmail tricks, both old and new. Even if you already consider yourself a Gmail ninja, there's bound to be something here you haven't yet discovered.
Master Gmail