ABSTRACT
The commoditization of white-collar work will mean that there will be fewer opportunities for employees to genuinely exercise their intellect within the average workplace. As technology becomes more sophisticated and as work becomes more codified and commoditized it doesn't stretch the imagination too far to see how the same increase in demand can be placed on other white-collar workers. One of the most significant benefits which commoditization brings to the employer is transparency of work-based activity. Commoditization is capable of making previously invisible work visible and through this facilitates its monitoring by management, who are able to assess an individual's effort and contribution more precisely. Workers are increasingly finding that unions have little weight when addressing the impacts of globalization and commoditization. The global oversupply of labour which is increasingly educated creates the backdrop for white-collar commoditization and the threat to the traditional career path most of us had expected to pursue.
