Move over telecommuter – here comes the cloud worker! Now if I could only get my own boss to de-organization man himself I could make some real progress!
“If the Organization Man was a child of the entitlement era, born of the Mommy Corporation, for whom a layoff was a debilitating psychic shock,
the cloudworker is his antithesis, the ultimate career/life pragmatist.
He accepts the reality of a structurally volatile, but opportunity-rich
global economy. He strives to build a diversified portfolio of active
and potential income streams, but he is much too adult and
social-network-enabled to want to fire his boss. He follows his micro-market wherever it takes him. Today he might be fighting a bidding war in a work-auction marketplace;
next week he might be marching through the well-manicured forests of a
corporate ecosystem, making his way to the back door marked
“consultant.” Next year, he might go retro, accept a traditional job,
and settle in for a good half-decade.”
