Tomorrow’s Workplace Needs a Workforce
Immigration to Fuel the Next Workforce in North America
Entrepreneur magazine posted a very insightful article in the summer of 2008 entitled: Tomorrow’s workforce: the needs for immigrant workers and strategies to retain them.
Hardest hit, according to Bao Q. Nguyen, will be “aerospace and defense, utilities, health care, insurance and financial services, and public education.”
While this article refers to the US, Canadian businesses should take heed.
Bye Bye Boomers 
By 2010, 40% of the population in the US will have reached 55. The baby boomer generation is aging, and with that maturity and experience, comes retirement and physical limitations.
What can you do to prepare your business for the future? One clear answer forwarded by the experts is immigration, and immigration, by nature, brings diversity in the workplace.
How we do business, how we relate in our work environment, and how we accomplish our goals will change dramatically in the coming decades.
Once driven by western values and capitalistic ideals, our workforce will become highly integrated with not only the physical bodies, but the cultural needs and social priorities of our new workforce.
Whether we like it or not, our thinking as employers will be forced to change, or we won’t be in business.
We would appreciate your comments. How is your company adapting to the workforce changes? What is the impact? Where are you “stumped”?
Harmony Thiessen
Diversity In The Workplace – Pt. 1
Part 1 of the Series: DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE
True diversity goes a step further to include differences that aren’t visible to the eye — differences in the ways people approach their jobs. (R.Mourtada)
Tomorrow’s Workplace encourages “diversity in the workplace,” and yet without definition, that could mean anything from providing vegetarian meals in the cafeteria to hiring people from Atlantic Canada in BC employment. What is the reference point when we refer to diversity in the workplace, and how do we find common ground?
We begin with a article written by RASHA MOURTADA first published in the Globe and Mail in March of 2007. In March 2009, the article, as presented here was updated.
VISIT THE ARTICLE – CLICK HERE.
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