If the old paradigm was that you spent 40 years with the same company, we’re moving toward the opposite extreme, where workers are free agents and a job is less a landing spot than a way station, The New York Post reports. “Companies are looking at talent in a more strategic way, and the idea of working a 40-hour, 9-to-5 job for the same company year after year will be less and less the norm,” one expert says.

If the old paradigm was that you spent 40 years with the same company, we’re moving toward the opposite extreme, where workers are free agents and a job is less a landing spot than a way station, The New York Post reports. “Companies are looking at talent in a more strategic way, and the idea of working a 40-hour, 9-to-5 job for the same company year after year will be less and less the norm,” one expert says.