There will be four key changes in the way we work in the next five years, namely 2025. These will be:

1. ‘Remotopia’: working from home. In early 2020, less than 5% of employees worked remotely. Now, more than half of the knowledge staff work remotely. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, several reputable companies - Facebook, Google, PayPal, Shopify, Siemens and others - have announced sustainable remote employment policies. Remote work arrangements, which are new to many companies and employees, require very different ways of thinking and collaborating.
   
    Studies show that remote employees work longer hours and have more productive hours than office workers. Both employees and employers will need to learn to balance these gains, however, by combining issues such as greater chances of smoking and a sense of isolation. In addition, the recruitment of knowledge staff can be extended to new geographies. These changing dynamics will move towards Human Valuation in the coming years.
    

2. Green collar. Climate clocks continue to mark. As the US hopes to join the Paris Climate Convention and strengthen its commitment to climate change mitigation policies, new business opportunities should abound. To begin with, it is expected that by 2024 electric vehicles will achieve parity with internal combustion engine vehicles.

    This has clearly prompted Amazon, the world’s largest retailer, to encourage investment to electrify the fleet. All signs indicate that the importance of the green business economy is emerging. As new regulations and new technologies pave the way for new platforms and ways of doing business, the employees behind it need to evolve. The ‘green collar’ is a great opportunity to create jobs and will be a lifeline for many workers who will eliminate jobs through new policies on industrial carbon reduction or automation.

3. The evolution of the concert economy. Your company’s next COO will operate remotely, stay in the company for six months, and never get a company email account. But they will be the best contracts you have ever made.

   On-demand job platforms like TaskRabbit and Uber have helped normalize the concert economy by providing a platform for ad hoc self-employed tasks. This standardization, along with new technologies, has opened the door to marketing, management, engineering — and even finance — jobs for white-collar workers as freelancers. In recent years freelance has been seen as a last resort for people who performed regular tasks or otherwise undesirable employees. Now, the most talented individuals are betting on themselves. Freelancing provides agility to companies that need to adapt to unexpected challenges and gives freedom to employees who want flexible and remote work arrangements.

4. Automation and AI increase the workforce. Much of the jobs in the Fourth Industrial Revolution focus on the importance of so-called knowledge workers and creative work. Computers and software will not be able to replicate human creativity. Although smart machines will eliminate some manual work, much more work will be added. In the wake of the pandemic, logistics operations have explored demand-side automation services such as Fetch Robotics to enable social distance in warehouses and safe work environments.