Entrepreneurial efforts and small businesses will continue their strong growth, providing even more reason to leave an unacceptable corporate job. The line between independent contractors, regular employees, temporary employees, contract employees and business partnership arrangements is blurring as people and companies learn that nothing lasts forever. In fact, the IRS is suffering loss of respect and serious weaknesses in its strangle-hold on the average taxpayer as people inside and outside no longer accept the IRS's historic hostile, inhuman methods. These changes may take many years to become fully implemented, but the 1997 congressional hearings and IRS employee testimony was a major step in this direction. Expect to see more calls for dismantling the IRS and for creating simpler tax methods.
Relationships continue to be important.
People will be concerned with their business relationships, personal relationships, family relationships and friendships. If those relationships are not providing appropriate support, people will no longer tolerate bad situations. Rather, they will leave the relationship if it cannot be fixed. This will continue to be evident in increased demands for flexibility working conditions and more positive working relationships as well as less tolerance for hostile working conditions. Better support systems and benefits will be demanded by employees.