THE INCREASE OF FREELANCERS ACROSS MANY PROFESSIONS As we talked about earlier, perhaps the defining Decentralization also means the end of Frederick trait of shifting from capitalism to post-capitalism Taylor-style management policies and company is that we decentralize. This decentralization is, of structures. Networked professionals are far less course, thanks to technology. hierarchical. There’s no VP-SVP-EVP needed chain of command among freelancers. Decentralization means they don’t have to come to the factory anymore to have management oversee In the companies of the near-future, executives their work; they can work just fine (and in many will simply hire out the best freelance teams for professions, much faster) from home. whatever needs they have that year. They’ll scale up or scale down depending on the tasks at hand. 104