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MANAGEMENT
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New Talent
ATTRACTING
What will a visit to your offices look like in
10 years? An observer might find employ-
ees in jeans and T-shirts sitting on sofas and
team-brainstorming new marketing tactics.
Perhaps that guest might find few individuals
on-site at all, and those who are there could
be having discussions with holograms of col-
leagues working remotely. Or the visitor might
find some staff immersed in an online training
module to learn a skill seemingly unrelated to
their current jobs.
Some of these scenarios are not all that
futuristic. While the holograms may be a distant
dream, many workplaces are already experienc-
ing a transition from a traditional at-your-desk,
business-attire, 9-to-5 environment.
So what accounts for these changes?
Chalk a lot of it up to advancing technology. But
some of the change may be attributed to
who’s
at work. According to the Brookings Institute,
millennials — those born between 1982 and
2003 — will represent more than one in three
adult Americans by 2020, and make up as
much as 75 percent of the U.S. workforce by
2025.
FIVE WAYS
TO RETOOL
YOUR
WORKPLACE
BY JUDY KENNINGER