The document discusses key trends that are transforming the US workforce and challenging businesses:
1. The pool of skilled labor is shrinking due to demographic changes while demand is increasing, resulting in a growing gap between available workers and open jobs.
2. Expectations of workers, especially Generations X and Y, are evolving, prioritizing work-life balance over long hours and loyalty to employers.
3. Rapid technological advances are changing how, where, and when work gets done, enabling more flexible and mobile work arrangements.
Tomorrow's Knowledge Workers: The Evolving Workforce and the Challenge to US Businesses
1. Tomorrow’s Knowledge Workers: The Evolving Workforce and the Challenge to US Businesses PARC Futures Workshop Ken Parekh and Mary Walker Management Consultants with the Deloitte Mass Career Customization TM Initiative April 30, 2008
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3. One Page Summary on the future of knowledge workers 1.There won’t be enough of them. 2.Their expectations will be different. 3.Technologies will transform when, where and how work is done.
21. … but it won’t happen overnight. “ Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” Folk saying, in current times attributed to Paul Saffo
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23. Tomorrow’s Knowledge Workers: The Evolving Workforce and the Challenge to US Businesses PARC Futures Workshop Ken Parekh and Mary Walker, Consultants Currently with the Deloitte Mass Career Customization Initiative April 30, 2008
Editor's Notes
This presentation was for an internal invitation-only event at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California. Purpose of this workshop series is to promote learning and discussion among PARC personnel around future predictions and trends, in order to identify possible new research directions for PARC and possible applications of existing PARC research. The two presenters were also part of a Q&A panel at the workshop. No compensation was provided to the presenters for their participation. This file is uploaded to Slideshare with the permission of the PARC workshop organizers. For more information about Xerox PARC, please visit www.parc.com . For more information on the PARC Futures Workshops, please contact Dr. Markus Fromherz, Manager of ISL (Intelligent Systems Lab) at PARC. This presentation includes some of the research assembled by Deloitte & Touche US as part of its Mass Career Customization initiative. Mass Career Customization TM is a program designed to enable organizations to provide long-term individualized career paths for employees (in response to multiple converging trends in the workforce that have made the traditional one-side-fits-all “career ladder” appropriate for fewer and fewer workers). For more information on MCC, please visit www.masscareercustomization.com . Slides not specifically referenced as Deloitte & Touche materials were authored by Mary Walker and Ken Parekh for this specific PARC event.