Major Business and Technology Trends Shaping the Contemporary World

CHAPTER 9

Labor, Work Organization, and Education

1. The Slowdown in Labor Growth and Aging Workforce in the United States
2. Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills and Education Attainment
3. The Move Toward a Flattened, Fluid, and Flexible Organization of Work
4. Growing Diversity of the Workforce
5. Automation is Expected to Displace a Huge Number of Jobs in the Short-and Mid-Term

The Slowdown in Labor Growth and Aging Workforce in the United States

Over the course of the next decades, the world’s population will be aging rapidly across the globe, particularly in developed countries. Currently, there are around 962 million people aged 60 years or over in the world, comprising 13 percent of the global population and growing at a rate of about 3 percent ...