For this mini-episode we polled the MPI office about our own worst work experiences. We talk a lot about the shift from an industrial economy to a creativity and knowledge driven economy. Yet, what gets obscured is that that this shift hasn’t benefitted everyone; while those who have moved into creative fields enjoy both higher compensation and job satisfaction, an alarming number of people aren’t so lucky. They find themselves stuck in precarious service industry work – dead-end low pay, routine jobs that do nothing to stimulate the mind. Worst of all, these bad, service jobs now account for just under half of all jobs. In almost every case, the aspects of the MPI staff’s worst jobs mirrored the low-stakes, low rewards drudgery associated with many service work positions.

For anyone in the Toronto area interested in learning more about this topic, Zeynep Ton, author of the Good Jobs Strategy is speaking at the Rotman School of Management on Monday, September 12th at 5:30pm.

Register to attend here: http://martinprosperity.org/shiftdisturbers/schedule/