The 2006-2007 SHRM Workplace Forecast examines the issues that are affecting
macro- trends in the workplace. The forecast surveyed a random sample of 1,232 SHRM members. The top ten trends overall are:
1. Rising health care costs
2. Increased use of outsourcing/off-shoring of jobs to other countries
3. Threat of increased health care/medical costs on the economic
competitiveness of the United States
4. Increased demand for work/life balance
5. Retirement of large numbers of baby boomers around the same time
6. New attitudes toward aging and retirement as baby boomers reach
retirement age
7. Rise in the number of individuals and families without health
insurance
8. Increase in identity theft
9. Work intensification as employers try to increase productivity with
fewer employees
10. Vulnerability of technology to attack or disaster
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