The challenge to executives is to coordinate efforts of all categories of workers.

Along with full-time employees, PEOs, and temp workers, there may also be a closely linked but separately managed organization made up of nontraditional employees in the new corporation. Increasingly, employees take early retirement but they do not stop working. Instead, their “second career” often takes an unconventional form. They may work freelance, or part-time, or as temporaries, or for an outsourcing contractor, or as contractors themselves. Such “early retirement to keep on working” is particularly common among knowledge workers.

Attracting and holding these diverse groups will become the central tasks of people ...

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