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Will your 9-to-5 job be extinct by 2034? LinkedIn co-founder's prediction on future of work is viral
An old interview of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman predicting the future of work is viral on X.
An old interview with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman predicting that conventional jobs will become a thing of the past has re-surfaced on social media. The veteran entrepreneur's predictions sparked renewed conversations about the evolving nature of employment and how companies must figure out how they can minimise some of the uncertainty and increase stability for employees in the era of gig economy.
"You may not only work at multiple companies in your career. You may work at multiple industries. Industries are changing. Your growing path changes. You may not actually do a lot of your work," Hoffman said.
"You may be working in the gig economy. You may have two or three gigs. All of these things are the directional changes for what we've seen in the workforce for the last few decades."
Neal Taparia, an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor, shared the clip from Hoffman's interview.
“Your 9-to-5 job is dying. By 2034, it'll be extinct. That's Reid Hoffman's latest prediction – the founder of LinkedIn who predicted the rise of social media in 1997,” he said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The post has over 17 million views and over 61,000 ‘likes’.
Take a look at the viral thread on X:
Taparia highlighted three other past predictions by Reid Hoffman that came true.
The LinkedIn co-founder had predicted that social networks would change the world and eventually sold the platform to tech giant Microsoft for over $26 billion. Hoffman, an early investor in vacation rental giant Airbnb, had foreseen the rise of the sharing economy.
Hoffman had also predicted the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution years before ChatGPT was launched.
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The major Democratic Party donor wrote on social media: "I wholeheartedly support Kamala Harris and her candidacy for President of the United States in our fight for democracy in November."
