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The End Of Jobs

Can we coordinate the work of companies with an increasingly contingent workforce?

Stowe Boyd
Jan 28, 2021
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Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

In several recent essays, I’ve come across an emerging thread of management thought, one that harkens back to a time of piecework, where workers were paid based on the completion of tasks — such as making the slats for a chair back — rather than being employed as chairmakers and paid an hourly or monthly wage.

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