45 Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions for Building a Better Workplace

Lisa Y. Flores and David L. Blustein

DOI: 10.4324/9781003272397-54

The confluence of events at this particular period of time—the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, racial oppression in the United States, declining economic growth, and wars—have all impacted the labor market and workers across every industry and international context. These events have magnified the disparities in the world of work and highlighted the precarious nature of work that many experience (Blustein et al., 2022). The opportunity for meaningful transformations in the workplace and labor markets in response to these events is now, to prevent further entrenchment in social divides and to ameliorate ...

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