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More Predictions For and About the Mature Workforce in 2007
As promised, here are a few more of my predictions for and about the mature workforce in 2007...
Litigation, based on age discrimination, will accelerate in 2007. As mature workers linger between jobs following layoffs, sheer numbers dictate that lawsuits will soon follow as 10,000 boomers turn 50 and 8,000 baby boomers turn 60 each and every day.
The effects, for better and worse, of globalization will continue as high tech service jobs join the march overseas. And large numbers of recent college grads will begin to leave this country to live and work in other countries. Jobs will be back-filled here by the mature workforce.
In spite of the housing market slump, mature Americans will continue to leave home for the mountains in the West or the mild climate in the South. These folks, and others, will use the Internet to work remotely.
Record numbers of mature students will flood our universities and institutions of higher learning. Some universities will begin to see the possibilities that extended studies will, one day, outperform income from undergraduate studies. A concerted effort will be made by these institutions to attract continuing students in 2007.
Posted by Carleen MacKay on December 14, 2006 at 9:40 AM
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It's been a year since I last worked. I'm over 50 years old and although I can't prove it, I believe I am being discriminated against due to age. Sure, it's against the law to age discriminate, but it's also against the law to commit murder. Go figure.....Everyone loves my qualifications on my resume and call me in for interviews, then I never hear back from them. What can I do? I need a job for the sake of survival. When I got fired, I literally got executed. It destroys your life, your hopes for future security. All I can think about is if I'll be pushing a shopping cart with empty cans when I get older.
Posted by Bianca Arbucci on December 16, 2006 2:31 AM
This is what gets me about the baby boomer litigation about age discrimination: When will they start paying attention to anything that is not them? Robert Fuller, ex-president of Oberlin College, has two, great books out about rankism, which is his term for the baby-boomer-sanctioned, institutionalized discrimination against people(mostly young people) based on rank. There is discrimination all over the place, documented in these books, against people of low rank. Maybe the baby boomers should focus on legislation about this if they are so bent on improving the workplace.
Posted by Penelope Trunk on December 16, 2006 1:31 PM
Bianca, I have posted a response to your comment at http://www.spherion.com/careerblog/ask_seymour/
Posted by Seymour on January 11, 2007 2:13 PM