The workforce is changing and the workers of the future are unique. Technologically-savvy, globally mobile and highly adaptive, their pace of transformation has been accelerated by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The shift towards contract work continues with many workers supplying their labor outside of the traditional employment relationship. Work can be derived from Shared Economy App providers enabling flexible and freelance work to organizations leveraging contract workers.
For the traditional employees, new ways of working are becoming permanent. Work from home, hybrid, bleisure and workcations have become attractive workplace options.
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Fact: The worldwide ridesharing market size was valued at US$59.53 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach US$205.83 billion by 2030.1
Fact: The pandemic has fueled growth in startups, with layoffs turning some of the retrenched into entrepreneurs who have set up their own businesses.2
Fact: More than 900 million tourists travelled internationally in 2022, according to United Nations World Tourism Organization. Social media inuencers specializing in travel are part of this travel recovery story.3
Fact: A 2021 survey by WTW found that 31% of companies expect an increase in international assignments in the coming year.4
Fact: A GBTA (Global Business Travel Association) survey of corporate travel managers in 2022 found that 90% of them said that employees were interested in combining business trips with recreational travel at their companies.5
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The Future Worker
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Sources
1According to the forecast by Allied Market Research - https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/ride-sharing-market-A13712
2Reported by Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/04/09/pandemic-fuels-global-growth-of-entrepreneurship-and-startup-frenzy/?sh=5103a34f7308
3World Tourism Barometer, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2023 - https://www.unwto.org/unwto-world-tourism-barometer-data
42021 Internationally mobile employee benets design survey by WTW - https://www.wtwco.com/en-US/Insights/2021/09/2021-internationally-mobile-employee-benets-design-survey
5Time, 17 April 2023 - https://time.com/6272171/combine-business-trip-vacation/
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