Work Without Jobs

Series Foreword vii
Introduction: Work without Jobs Is the New Work Operating System ix
1 Work as Deconstructed Job Elements versus Stable Jobs 1
2 Work Automation Deconstructed: Not Replacing Jobs with Automation but Optimizing Task-Level Combinations of Humans and Automation 15
3 Work Arrangements beyond Employment: A Democratized Work Ecosystem beyond the Fixed Traditional Organizational Boundary 29
4 Deconstructed Workers: Seeing the Whole Person through Skills/Capabilities versus Simply "Jobholders" 51
5 Perpetually Reinventing Deconstructed Work 69
6 Management, Leadership, and Deconstructed Work Coordination: Collaborative Hubs, Teams, Projects, and Agile Work Innovation versus Hierarchy, Structure, Jobs, and Stable Authority 83
7 The New Work Operating System beyond the Organization 107
Conclusions and Next Steps 135
Acknowledgments 155
Notes 157
Index 171

Ravin Jesuthasan, a recognized futurist and authority on the future of work, human capital, and automation, is Senior Partner and Global Leader for Transformation Services at Mercer. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s steering committee on work and employment. John W. Boudreau conducts breakthrough research on human capital, talent, and sustainable competitive advantage. He is Emeritus Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Jesuthasan and Boudreau are coauthors of Transformative HR: How Great Companies Use Evidence-Based Change for Sustainable Advantage, Lead the Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment, and Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work.