In 1959, Martin Feregrino described the term ‘knowledge worker’ as “anyone who develops, works with, or uses information in the workplace.
As information-centric services rise in the modern economic paradigm, knowledge workers are becoming the fastest growing sector of the world’s workforce, driving 70 percent of economic growth.”
This infographic – by Socialcast – takes a look at the knowledge worker – then and now.
Thank you, Ewen! Nice post. And what a coincidence; I posted this on Twitter ;-) http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/what-peter-drucker-knew-about-2020/ Great thoughts.
Look at this in conjunction with this portrait of the modern knowledge worker: http://km4meu.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/portrait-of-the-modern-knowledge-worker/
Thanks for the great infographic!
Cheers,
Ewen