In the beggining of chapter 2 the section where it talks about an aging workforce really grabbed my attention. It mainly grabbed my attention in the part where it said by 2010 more than half of U.S. workers will be older than 40. This got my attention because here we are in the year 2010 and that is so true, more than half of the U.S. workforce is over 40 years old! This book was published around 2006 I am assuming, so it blows my mind that 4 years ago, they estimated right about the workforce. It was interesting to read why the fact that the current workforce being older is and might be a problem.
Having an older workforce in the U.S. is a problem because alot of them will be nearing retirement, so HR will have to spend alot of time and concern on retirment, retrraining, and rehiring. Organizations will also struggle with ways to control the rising costs of health care and other benefits. It also mentions how many of tommorows managers will supervise employees much older than themselves, that also got my attention because that is also very true right now. atleast 2 or 3 of my good friends my age are currently the managers and supervisors for people 10 or 20 years older than them. It also mentions how organizations will have to find ways to attract, retain and prepare the youth laborforce. Do you feel like this is acurate? Is it a problem?
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