This year's London Fashion Week, which came to an end this week, featured stunning new collections, showcasing the best of British - from JW Anderson, Burberry, to M&S to emerging designers like Simone Rocha. Real and faux fur, pleats on gowns, skirts and coats, cool and electric blue were prominent, as were bare legs and Made in England (Cara) model-inspired bags.
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The working landscape will undergo dramatic change over the next five years, influenced by advancing technologies, increasing globalisation and shifting employee habits and career and personal expectations. According to an article in HR Magazine, the HR sector will need to adapt to this ever-changing landscape. They predict ten trends will reshape the HR sector.
The number one trend is the rise of the global external workforce.
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In 2012 Google famously hired futurist Ray Kurzweil as Director of Engineering. His bold statement on singularity claims that in just 30 years we will be able to ‘upload’ our entire minds to computers and become ‘digitally immortal’.
It is not a surprise then that Google has been splashing out on Artificial Intelligence (AI) recently. After spending a reported $400 million on DeepMind – a UK-based AI business – plus a whopping $3.2 billion on the acquisition of Nest Technologies, the search engine giant is on the fast track to becoming a leader in AI - machine technology applied to devise ‘intelligent’ algorithms to facilitate learning.
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