I found this article in Forbes completely mind bending, almost surreal:
The mobile interface will be the employee’s primary conduit to a host of personal and business applications; putting pressure on HR to increase mobile adoption for recruitment, time and attendance, learning, goal setting and internal company newsletters.
So what does this consist of: "“social employer brand playbooks” wah? Apparently:-
1-In just the past few short years, companies have gone from viewing social media as a danger to be avoided to training their employees to be social media brand ambassadors for the corporate brand.
Better than walking the streets wearing sandwich boards I suppose.
2-Millennials were even more willing: 66% of them reported they were already interested in putting wearables to use at work.
Why not go the whole hog and be robotized?
3- Palmer and her team saw the design features of a MOOC as a wake up call to re-imagine e-learning at LinkedIn. The result: a cohort-based blended learning program that leverages the best features of corporate MOOCs, Conscious Business taught by Fred Kofman, VP of Leadership & Organizational Development at LinkedIn and author of the best selling book,
What? Seriously, what? My brain is beginning to congeal.
4-Consider Cognizant Technology Solutions, which has developed more than 50 apps for its employees’ learning. The demographics of the Cognizant workforce were elemental in their decision to take learning mobile: roughly 99% of the Cognizant workforce is part of either Gen X or GEN Y, with the vast majority, 79%, Gen Y.
Cyborgs? Download your knowledge today, be intelligent in company, impress your friends? Combined with point 3, now I'm lost?
5- Meanwhile, a host of ‘big data’ recruiting firms is set to benefit from this increased emphasis on using data analytics to find talent. These firms even claim they can tap new talent before it even hits the job market.
Stephen Hawking was right about artificial intelligence taking over the world except that it will be carried around by an organism:
He told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
Everyday, in every way, I thank the FSM that I no longer inhabit this corporate world/nightmare. I left it not all that long ago, even still, I now find it totally incomprehensible. Who the hell did they talk to? Is it a downloadable app that determines the correct corporate response?
I call this gobbledegook [that is all I can come up with] when being nice, totally fucking insane when I am not.