By choice or chance, many workers have already given up the notion of a traditional, steady, full-time job with health benefits, a 401 (k) plan and desk to their name.
A new report finds that less steady work is likely to become even more common in the future. The report from The McKinsey Global Institute <http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/us_jobs/pdfs/MGI_us_jobs_full_report.pdf> finds that in the next five years, more than half of employers expect to rely more on temporary, part-time and contract workers for a variety of duties. There are already 8.4 million involuntary part-time workers in the United States, according to the July unemployment data released Friday <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44031964/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/> . Those are people who are working part-time but want a full-time job. http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/08/04/7255822-good-graph-friday-future-of-work-temp-jobs
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