Charles Handy article on the free lance employee

Article by Charles Handy on how, with declining numbers of corporations, specialized, freelance employees with short and medium term contracts of employment will become increasingly common. Handy begins the article describing how he visited Silicon Valley, where a personnel director at a high-tech company conversed with Handy about a career center he established, which was set up to give confidential advice and counseling on career planning. Handy proceeds to note how it is too expensive to carry a large core of guaranteed careers in today’s fast changing world, and how people do best when the... Mehr ...