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Now jobs are changing and we've already talked in Past lectures about the rise of alternative work arrangements, various ways that technology changes jobs but it's helpful to review these again because sets the stage for some of the challenges of job analysis and that jobs aren't static. So when we make a static document, because that's what we're doing with job analysis, it's going to have a problem whenever things are changing and so the technology, the rise of flexible work arrangements, the rise of team based work, and the use ever more so of other duties as assigned aspects of job descriptions, all claim the fact that it's hard to nail down specifically what people are always doing. So we'll talk about ways to do that, ways we can still achieve it, but the end of the day we want to keep in mind job analysis must be able to adapt to changing conditions. And this is where we'll see some of the appeal of competency based job analysis in a little while.