The reboot of economies around the world, will herald a new species of companies set to dominate the remainder of the 21st Century, through hyper-productivity where such companies can produce outputs five, ten or even twenty times or more the productivity of enterprises of a similar size. The difference will be Future Jobs designed around Future Work Practices.

One Title but Many Hats

Future Jobs will still see a single job title, but the end to the notion that one title = one job. Instead, Future Jobs will involve many hats (jobs) rolled into one, with the title no longer directly describing what a person does, but more likely their seniority in an enterprise and/or division or team within the business.

Multi-Skills Mandatory

Future Jobs will make Multi-Skills essential. As a consequence, traditional role division such as a manager or secretary whereby a leader could allocate their administrative tasks to an assistant will be largely gone. Instead assistants will become communications or relationship facilitators, providing the necessary logistics and coordination needed to lock in appointments, meetings and activities.

Flexible Hours, Flexible Locations

9 to 5 and 5 day a week work will end with Future Jobs. Instead, such roles will be tailored and flexible so that future businesses become 24/7 rather than 9 to 5 themselves. More people will stay working from home; and those that do not, are more likely to work at emerging regional hubs than the traditional gravitational pull to cbd high rise office blocks.

Project Focused, Team Driven

Future Jobs will be more project focused and team driven than hierarchical. Of course, there will always be the demand for back-office administration. However, AI systems and smarter companies, combined with security and privacy risk mitigation will see 99% of this work come back on-shore in developed countries.

End of Employee-Employer Traditional Relation

Significantly, Future Jobs will see the end of the traditional employee- employer relation. In dynamic company design, a project may involve some full time contract team members, some part time, some external contractors and even specialist service providers all working as one. Governments will need to catch up with their own planning to recognise these changes in reality.