The book will be featured on the cover of the May issue of Fast Company, where Pink is a contributing editor. This, says Pink, is the biggest story of the new economy.
Free agency is the real new economy.
Pink offers an incisive look at how and why Americans are balking at the traditional binds of a corporate job, choosing instead to strike out on their own. The motivation, Pink says, crosses the board from the death of job security, to the search for meaning, to the shrinking life spans of corporations, to our increasing discontent with government and corporate policies designed to help workers balance between work and family. According to Pink, job diversity is replacing job security, and blending, not balancing, work and family is the new mantra of the American workforce. Women hit the glass ceiling in corporate America, and are exiting out the side door. Managers, as we now know them, will disappear.