Abstract

This chapter addresses three interrelated topics around the future of work, its organization, and its representation in the labor market. Initially, the chapter describes the current disruptive process and the growing fragmentation in the global labor market. Accordingly, the article shows how digital platforms have reconfigured the o rganization of work and the trends that emerge in the context of the global covid pandemic. Later, the chapter develops a posthumanist approach to understanding the management of work and organizations. The posthumanism approach allows the analysis to tran scend a purely human center workforce analysis, for example, incorporating the digital as a constitutive part of the problem. This maneuver leads to building a consistent ontology and deontology to understand the actual landscape of the management and work . The chapter ’ s core addresses the future of work, questioning the validity of the existing disciplinary theories, thus problematizing the same current notion of work. The narrative goes through different epochal moments. First, the chapter shows the time of occupation of the planet by humans (Anthropocene); secondly, the centrality of capitalism in modern life (Capitalocene), and finally, recent deontological proposals (Chtulucene). The chapter ends by showing how new normative horizons could guide novel w ork reconfiguration in our volatile, uncertain, and complex global context