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APAC Forum Five Talent Disruptors From demography to robots and organisational flattening, the 21st century workforce is changing rapidly. By Kevin Wheeler Disruptor #1: Career mosaics are becoming the norm. Many of us grew up with our model of work being an 8-to-5 job, at a place removed from home—either an office or a factory—for a fixed salary. styles are becoming more prevalent, from part-time and contract work to total self-employment. People have many choices and will choose, at different times in their lives, to work in different ways. Fewer people are marrying or having children. Home and automobile ownership has declined among young people. Debt is at historically In 1960, four of the top five employers in the United States were goods producing, while today the top five employers are all service providers. Less than 15 per cent of the U.S. workforce is involved in producing goods today. low levels. Small, entrepreneurial businesses developing software, games, or offering services such as hourly car rental, sharable office space, bicycle repair, and food services have grown to employ an Work is also less routinised and more creative; freeing people from increasingly mobile, educated, and urban population. Estimates are physical locations and lowering fixed costs. A variety of working that for every engineering or software developer job created, five [10] HRO TODAY GLOBAL | SPRING 2013