Right now, the power to bring more humanity to your workplace lies with you. That’s why we’ve framed the Workhuman® Charter of Workplace Rights to redefine the workplace, one that puts employees at the center. And now there’s a way for individuals and enterprises to be acknowledged for delivering on these rights with Workhuman® Certified.
Business is changing at a speed that was inconceivable a generation ago. A brief review of the most significant challenges points to why the human enterprise is coming to the forefront of organizational cultures.
Disruption has spread into every industry, enabling tiny start-ups to threaten large enterprises. The disruption might be a new technology, a new business model, innovative practices, or even a new customer experience. Disruptive companies are not necessarily more human, as the public embarrassments of companies like Uber demonstrate, but they force competitors to become more innovative and agile, and that can only be done by motivated employees.
The ever-increasing pace of change requires every organization to adapt quickly to new surroundings. This includes the exponential growth of mobile devices and the billions of sensors collectively called the internet of things, the unmeasurable growth of data storage and processing in the cloud, the acceleration of climate change, and the increasing mobility of people (and their skills). The effect on organizations is that they have to reconfigure to change as fast as change itself.
Hypercompetition is created by a global marketplace, technology transfer, and the power of data management to minimize costs. The dislocations created by hypercompetition are evident in the worldwide political and social reaction to it, from new trade barriers and agreements to legal regulation of internet giants like Facebook and Google.
Information is becoming a commodity. Search engines and infinite data storage mean that more than 4 billion people with internet access can acquire information, whether that’s the price of corn, a CEO’s salary, or the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.A recruiter can find radiation technologists in Denver, and her candidates can check which hospitals are rated best by their employees. Useful information is so abundant and inexpensive to acquire, that it is effectively a commodity. That means the value of information is more a factor of what you do with it than how much you pay to acquire it. What matters is asking the right questions and discovering the right relationships among data points.
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Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine built Workhuman with a simple premise: that giving and receiving gratitude would improve performance in any business. Today, that premise has become a global movement and community of people, purpose, and passion behind bringing more humanity to the workplace. And now, they’ve written the book on it – a call for a more human workplace that springs from a vision of a better way of doing business, a better society, and a better world.
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July 11, 2023 | 11AM EST | 4 PM GMT+1
