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The Future of Work for Boomers

Even more for financial reasons:

  • the decline in corporate pension and health benefits
  • the uncertain future of social security benefits
  • the decline in home and investment portfolio values due to the current recession.

More will be healthy enough to continue working: Boomers have a longer life expectancy at retirement age than their counterparts in previous generations. Boomers will become the first generation ever to live more than half of their adult lives after age 50.

Doing it “My Way” will continue shape the behavior of the Me Generation.

Employers will be obliged to accommodate this attitude through a complete re-imagining of how work gets done. Part-time roles, home office bases, temporary assignments, will be only the beginning of bold new ways of structuring the relationship between corporations and wisdom contributors.

Read more in a recent article on CNNMoney.com ...

 

 

 

   

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Semi-Tough
"Are You Ready for Semi-Retirement?" is the question posed in a book by Ian Taylor who says Boomers are inventing the concept. In an interview in Toronto's Financial Post, he says hot  semi-careers include consulting, creative communications, full-time investing, real estate management, home-care services, online niche businesses and what he calls the "gift-driven dream job." Read more about his insights >>

Class Action
Do you need more schooling as you redefine your work? The Wall Street Journal has a few considerations to ponder, particularly keeping in mind that the bottom line is the increased training needs to pay for itself. Check it out here >>

Doing Good
Many Boomers are leaving the corporate world for the nonprofit, in no small part because 640,000 senior managers at charitable organizations nationwide are leaving over the next decade. The need is for accountants, financial managers and strategic planners, according to an article in DallasNews.com >>

Short On Strategy?
Industry Week reports that, "Most companies do not have a plan to manage and transfer knowledge and even fewer factor cross-generational challenges into business strategy, says a recent report from The Conference Board." But companies that use strategic and targeted knowledge transfer methods can ride the crest of the wave. Read more here >>

 

 

 

 

     
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