Human resources
The Fallout from Freefalling Birth Rates in the Workplace
Birth rates in most developed countries are in a freefall. The United States is on the list of countries that producing enough children to prevent population decline…
How Effective Is Retraining After a Layoff?
While retraining may improve unemployed workers’ long-term prospects, many are struggling to find work in the short term…
White-Collar Jobs: Latest Victims of Recession and Technology
Blue-collar workers aren’t the only casualties of technology and a recession. Many professional jobs in finance, media, and even law and accounting will never be the same…
Critical Job Skills You’ll Need in the Future
The definition of work and, consequently, the definition of a job is changing. The evolution from agrarian and industrial age jobs to service and knowledge work is nearing its completion…
Unemployment Statistics Rely on Fuzzy Math
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, “it isn’t all that simple to work out how many Americans are out of work…
Did the recession gives employers an excuse for shedding under-skilled workers?
It’s like the recession justified a business cleansing — wholesale layoffs, plant closings and outsourcing for the sake of avoiding bankruptcy or closing a business entirely…
Birth rates decline: The death of youth?
Birth rates in most developed countries are in a freefall. The U.S. joined the list of countries that are not giving birth to enough children to keep their populations…
Too many workers, not few skills
Despite high unemployment rates, the United States does not have enough people to fill the jobs that should be created and an oversupply of people to fill jobs that are…
Unemployment to Remain High: Abundance of Labor, Poverty of Talent
For the unemployed, the road back to employment seems to be getting longer and longer. Worse it seems to be filled with bumps that will never end…
Gray Ceiling Casts Shadow on Millennials
Slow job growth and delayed Baby Boomer retirement is erecting what I’ve called the “gray ceiling,” the inability of the next generation of employees (Generation X) to move up…