ABSTRACT
Several different conditions of today’s society indicate that work will be given an even higher priority in the future. In earlier times, work was merely a means of survival, but several things indicate that work will come to be an independent goal of life. Because of technological developments, we are now able to work independently of fixed time and space, and the job has long since invaded our private sphere. Occupational health psychologist Einar Baldursson also predicts that we will see more people losing control of their work in the future. He argues, among other things, that our society is promoting over-involvement in the job. He sees the problem as occurring as early as in primary school, in which the children are trained in this through project-based work. Today, our work situations are not as stable as they were in earlier times when people used to stay in the same job all their life.
