LAS VEGAS — Americans are looking to move out of the routine in jobs and financial services as industries commoditize in search of meaning and positive experiences.
Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, told attendees of CUNA's America's Credit Union Conference and Expo last week that the logical, left-brained type jobs are going away as foreign competition and technology increase. Certain jobs that are routine can be automated or moved overseas and certain services, including those in the financial services industry are becoming increasingly automated. "If work is routine, it is disappearing," he said.
"Today, those abilities are absolutely 100% necessary," Pink said three times over, "but it is no longer sufficient." There are lawyers losing jobs because actions like an uncontested divorce can be done online at one-tenth the price of hiring a lawyer. He added the U.S. is moving from a logical to artistic, more right-brained manner of thinking, which is where credit unions can step in.
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