Business Post: Dylan Jones-Evans

Daily PostMarch 29, 2006

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THE concept of independent portfolio working was Professor Charles Handy's big idea back in the 1980s in his book The Age of Unreason. According to Handy, this new approach to working meant that an individual, rather than having a linear career, has a collection of careers or occupations, linked by a "golden thread of transferable competence".

There are various advantages to portfolio working. For example, employers are able to reduce their overhead costs for full-time employees and still retain a flexible resource pool of talent, while individuals are able to seek employment from more than one source, develop a wide range of transferable skills, and gain greater responsibility for managing their work-life balance.

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Business Post: Dylan Jones-Evans

Unfortunately, Handy's predictions have not turned out as he had expected but he still believes they will appeal ...

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