Homework is the new global labour paradigm.
It means that people predominantly work at home. It can be part-time work, temporary employment, self-employment, contracting, outsourcing; not excluding the professions or occupations (lawyers, notaries, doctors, accountants are members of the vast homeworking community who are increasingly incorporated and see themselves as businesses, as personal multinationals.
For some, homework will last for the rest of their lives because they like the freedom it gives them, for others homework will be a rite of passage, filling the gap between two jobs.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
Let's Dream
Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, Grouper etc.. what do these companies have in common:
1. They were taken over for billions (Google, NewsCorp, Yahoo, Sony)
2. None of them made any profit (that is an understatement)
3. Most of them even did not have any income
4. All of them aggregated audiences, they networked a community, and that community began to interact.
5. All of them after a while, began to develop a soul.
A search is only a search, but a community that searches for something and talks about it, that becomes a narrative, a story. That is what is being bought now in IPOs, the stories of millions of people.
Pajamanation is this profile: the story of transitions, how they lost their job, how hard it was, how they set up an office at home, how they worried about money, and eventually how they succeeded in providing for themselves and their families. The story of life after jobs. It tells people: you are on your own, but you are not alone.
That is what will make them smile, I believe, belonging to a Pajamanation.
Walter de Brouwer
1. They were taken over for billions (Google, NewsCorp, Yahoo, Sony)
2. None of them made any profit (that is an understatement)
3. Most of them even did not have any income
4. All of them aggregated audiences, they networked a community, and that community began to interact.
5. All of them after a while, began to develop a soul.
A search is only a search, but a community that searches for something and talks about it, that becomes a narrative, a story. That is what is being bought now in IPOs, the stories of millions of people.
Pajamanation is this profile: the story of transitions, how they lost their job, how hard it was, how they set up an office at home, how they worried about money, and eventually how they succeeded in providing for themselves and their families. The story of life after jobs. It tells people: you are on your own, but you are not alone.
That is what will make them smile, I believe, belonging to a Pajamanation.
Walter de Brouwer
Pajamanation
Alice is looking for someone to do her personal website. Bernard is looking for someone to pay him to do a website. Caroline is wants to sell her greeting cards online. David knows how to set-up online business and is looking to offer his expertise to people who want to take their business online. All four are people who have made a conscious decision to fire their bosses and strike out on their own. They work from home and they are their own masters.
This is what Pajamanation facilitates. Its an online marketplace for 'pajamaworkers' where microjobs are bought and sold.
Microjobs are small project jobs that usually take less than a week and are invoiced by Pajamaworkers. Pajamaworkers are homeworkers who have a subscription to Pajamanation® and who mostly belong to the knowledge worker category.
At present there is a huge disruption of the equilibrium in the market place for jobs: the world of job takers is failing and jobs are disappearing and becoming scarce. A new and tougher economic ecology is slowly making itself felt. People who have lost their jobs or have given up working for corporations are creating a new world of jobmakers where each of them creates their own job and they link up via high speed fiber with each other so that they can do more complex jobs and perhaps eventually challenge some of the jobs done by bigger corporations. At Pajamanation® we believe that the new economic ecology of jobmakers will partly replace the world of jobtakers and we foresee that soon a big part of the population will enjoy the future of working for oneself.
This is what Pajamanation facilitates. Its an online marketplace for 'pajamaworkers' where microjobs are bought and sold.
Microjobs are small project jobs that usually take less than a week and are invoiced by Pajamaworkers. Pajamaworkers are homeworkers who have a subscription to Pajamanation® and who mostly belong to the knowledge worker category.
At present there is a huge disruption of the equilibrium in the market place for jobs: the world of job takers is failing and jobs are disappearing and becoming scarce. A new and tougher economic ecology is slowly making itself felt. People who have lost their jobs or have given up working for corporations are creating a new world of jobmakers where each of them creates their own job and they link up via high speed fiber with each other so that they can do more complex jobs and perhaps eventually challenge some of the jobs done by bigger corporations. At Pajamanation® we believe that the new economic ecology of jobmakers will partly replace the world of jobtakers and we foresee that soon a big part of the population will enjoy the future of working for oneself.
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