This was published as part of LinkedIn’s Newsletter Series, on 6th May 2020. 

Quoted from the article:

The current COVID-19 epidemic we are all experiencing is forcing organizations around the world to challenge their conventional ideas around work. In this article I specifically want to take a look at how the “employee” is evolving. If you look up the word “employee” in the dictionary you will actually find that synonyms for the word employee include: cog, servant, and slave. This is how we have thought about our workforce for decades, as expendable and replaceable resources. We need to change that.

In 2014 I wrote a best-selling book called, The Future of Work and I developed a concept in there called “The Evolution of the Employee” which shows how this mentality is changing. This change has been quite slow but COVID-19 has made this evolution a present day reality.

Read the article here.

Author: Jacob Morgan at the thefutureorganization.com.