"When is everything gonna
get back to normal?" 

In the brilliant TV show "Mad Men" Roger Sterling said the line above in reaction to all the changes he was seeing in his co-workers circa 1967. As a viewer it's fun to be sitting in 2015 knowing the answer to his question is, "It's not going to happen and in fact, you ain't seen nothing yet!" At the same time, it's chilling to think that I've had the same thought Roger expressed. As we all know, things don't go back. We end up with a new reality.   

  

Expert marketer Seth Godin talks about how the nature of work used to be a structured system where for the most part you were told what to do. While some of that still exists, the modern worker is expected to navigate the job and the outputs.  Like any big change, it has its positives and negatives.  But make no mistake, the landscape has been permanently altered. There's no going "back to normal."

In case you've had your nose firmly fixed on the grindstone, here's a scorecard on the what's changed for the employee.