Professionals as flexible workers or portfolio people

TLDR: In this article, the authors start from the premise that the most dramatic change in recent times has been the growth of the knowledge, or learning, society: it is truly global in nature, it functions increasingly through virtual networks and has powerful implications for the ways in which people learn and work.

Abstract: In this paper, the author begins from the premise that the most dramatic change in recent times has been the growth of the knowledge, or learning, society: it is truly global in nature, it functions increasingly through virtual networks and has powerful implications for the ways in which people learn and work. To put these changes into a professional context, the paper first considers continuing professional development (CPD), defined as follows: the systematic maintenance and improvement of knowledge, skills and competence, and enhancement of learning, undertaken by a person throughout his or her working life. Important factors under discussion are new patterns of work and the work life balance.