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Control. The companies that provide such services often emphasize the control people have over their time, and for some workers that flexibility can be a major plus.

Quality of life is perhaps the single largest factor underpinning human happiness, and that quality is largely determined by one’s job. It should be no wonder then that so many activists and politicians have made improving work a key element of their advocacy for generations. The history of America is, in many ways, the history of work.

The worker of the future will be fast, flexible, and available the instant a customer clicks a button on a smartphone screen.

They are connected with each other like none before it through social media -- want a quick opinion or piece of advice? Send out a message to your group.

Work, as we know it, will and must change. All of us are being propelled into a future shaped by demographic shifts and technological advances, radically changing how, where and why we work. In this video, Futurist Jacob Morgan breaks down his vision for the Future of Work.

What does the term a “new way to work” signify? My company, Unify, posed that question to 961 professionals scattered across the globe and found in the results (published in June) that for 47 percent it meant “working where I want to work” and for 43 percent it meant “working when I want to work.”

The power of human-machine collaboration was demonstrated by two unranked amateur chess players in 2005, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee in the book.

Technology: Collaboration platforms, big data, wearables, the internet of things, the cloud, robots, and a host of other things that are all impacting how we work.

Bloomberg’s The Next Big Thing Conference kicked off at Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, Calif., this morning with Ron Conway, Esther Dyson and John Hennessy discussing just that — the impact that companies like Uber and Airbnb could have on the global economy.