1. NEW TOOLS TO LINK THE CHANGING WORKFORCE.
- Author
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Ives, William, Athey, Robin, and Jooste, Adriaan
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LABOR supply , *KNOWLEDGE management , *RETIREMENT , *OLDER people , *WORK environment - Abstract
The article describes the need to understand the characteristics of each current workforce generation, the nature of work and knowledge transfer in today's economy, and the new collaborative tools available to meet these challenges. In 2008, those born between 1946 and 1964 will turn the effective average age of retirement across most developed economies. The workplace repercussions will be enormous. By 2025, the pools of labor in Germany, Japan and Italy will have dwindled by over 1 million. And if the US economy continues to annually grow at 1.5 percent, it will face a shortfall of 10 million workers by 2010.
- Published
- 2004