Fact: the workforce of tomorrow will look drastically
different from the workforce of today. Employees
today are part of an economy that is subject to
ever-expanding technological developments and
constant globalization that affect workforce
demographics at a mind-numbing speed. Perhaps the
most ominous factors leading to change point to a
severe movement in the average age of the working
population. This book introduces the fact that the
average worker of tomorrow will likely be of a much
higher age, due to various reasons such as
continuously increasing life expectancy, low
fertility rates since the mid-70s, and stagnating
immigration for most of the EU25. From a personnel
management perspective, an ageing population will
create turbulence in human resource strategies for
all industries at all levels. New questions will
quickly arise: Will there be a labour shortage in my
field? (Is there already one?) Who will replace the
large proportion of workers about to retire? This
book aims to answer these and other questions by
providing a spectrum of promising HR measures that
will lead organisations to overcome the impacts of
demographic change in the near future.
different from the workforce of today. Employees
today are part of an economy that is subject to
ever-expanding technological developments and
constant globalization that affect workforce
demographics at a mind-numbing speed. Perhaps the
most ominous factors leading to change point to a
severe movement in the average age of the working
population. This book introduces the fact that the
average worker of tomorrow will likely be of a much
higher age, due to various reasons such as
continuously increasing life expectancy, low
fertility rates since the mid-70s, and stagnating
immigration for most of the EU25. From a personnel
management perspective, an ageing population will
create turbulence in human resource strategies for
all industries at all levels. New questions will
quickly arise: Will there be a labour shortage in my
field? (Is there already one?) Who will replace the
large proportion of workers about to retire? This
book aims to answer these and other questions by
providing a spectrum of promising HR measures that
will lead organisations to overcome the impacts of
demographic change in the near future.