{"id":87,"date":"2006-06-07T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=87"},"modified":"2006-06-07T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T12:39:39","slug":"76-and-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/76-and-44\/","title":{"rendered":"76 and 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One topic for which we write extensively is the upcoming worker shortage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Articles\/2006\/Article_Hiring_Adjustments_for_Gen_X_Y.html\" target=\"_blank\">see here<\/a>).  Obviously the economy will not stop, but there will be a real battle for talented employees.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/Careers\/story?id=2045535&#038;page=1&#038;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\" target=\"_blank\">Working Wounded Blog<\/a> from abcnews.com makes an interesting statement that companies will have to go beyond salaries and stock options to secure the best talent.  They will need to focus on the corporate environment to make it pleasing to the employees.  Based on the facts listed below, I think he is hitting a topic that will be at the forefront shortly (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The key numbers for the U.S. work force for the next 10 years are 76 and 44. There are <strong>76 million baby boomers<\/strong> and only <strong>44 million Gen-Xers<\/strong> \u20ac\u201d obviously not enough new blood to fill the void left by those who are retiring or at least thinking of retiring. That means we&#8217;re going to have to run an economy with 32 million boomers who are starting to think more about weekends and Winnebagos than work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One topic for which we write extensively is the upcoming worker shortage (see here). Obviously the economy will not stop, but there will be a real battle for talented employees. The Working Wounded Blog from abcnews.com makes an interesting statement that companies will have to go beyond salaries and stock options to secure the best talent. They will need to focus on the corporate environment to make it pleasing to the employees. Based on the facts listed below, I think he is hitting a topic that will be at the forefront shortly (emphasis mine): The key numbers for the U.S. work force for the next 10 years are 76 and&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/76-and-44\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-1p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":284,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/marketing-to-baby-boomers-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":87,"position":0},"title":"Marketing to Baby-Boomers Part 2","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"September 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From this week's SHRM Newsletter: EEOC Backs Targeted Recruitment of Older Workers. 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