The latest workplace term has dropped just before the ball does: flexetariat. And no, it doesn’t refer to that famous horse.
So projects Julia Hobsbawm, a workplace author and Bloomberg Work Shift columnist, in Scoop’s Flex Report 2024 Predictions. The hybrid work planning platform asked a dozen future of work experts what they think 2024 holds for the workplace. Hobsbawm’s answer was that the pandemic created a new type of worker for which flexibility reigns supreme: “Flexibility and freedom to choose is a permanent shift for workers.” She anticipates that this flexetariat—who are essentially gig workers—will continue to rise and thrive in 2024.
