Continues from part 1… How the work landscape will change and on which direction will we need to make decisions in order to confront a more sustainable career path, the climbing on the ladder in one of the traditional industries in the hopes of an evergreen retirement simply won’t make the cut, what else should we need to consider…?

Why Boomers can quit.-

With no retirement secured and facing the fact that today’s retirees are healthier and looking and feeling way younger than your grandma when reached the age 55, Baby Boomers (38% of todays job force) will keep working “in masse”, retirement waves usually smooth recessions, as 60-somethings quit, start spending and make room for younger workers. This time, though, normal retirement cycle has been disrupted. Although things are not going to work as previous recessions, this will eventually have a positive effect too, having more people on the work wagon means more people having residual income which will create more jobs, on top of that, young workers are much more flexible when it comes to “finding work”. They will be more likely to start businesses, embrace new technologies and industries, come up with new ideas to make money and take lower wages. Claudia Goldin, an economics professor at Harvard University says – “The economy has great absorptive capacity, more people participating in the workforce is better for everyone.”

Women are good for business.-

Work-life balance. seamed to make managers for decades to get the hives, but apparently women, and the way we want to work, are super good for business. Studies suggest that women manage more cautiously than men do. They focus on the long term, are consensus builders, conciliators and collaborators that focus on results as opposed to the time sheet and employ what is called a transformational leadership style — heavily engaged, motivational, extremely well suited for the emerging, less hierarchical workplace, our emotional-intelligence skills may become ever more essential in a work landscape that is leaning towards a more fluid, more collaborative environment that drives productivity up. On top of that, we consume 83% of all consumer purchases, that means companies will need more women to be more appealing to women. A decade from now, companies will understand that hiring lots of women, and letting them work the way they want, will help them Make More Money.

It will pay to save the planet.-

The uprising need for more jobs and the need for a strong action in the environmental arena suggest the obvious, to implement a comprehensive energy program, we can not only avert the worst consequences of climate change but also create millions of new jobs — green jobs,  economists and environmentalist alike concur in that with the right policies, this tendency will explode.  The Mayor’s report predicts that for the next 3 decades 10% of the works will be green jobs. Even when critics suggest that this is just too good to be true, the reality is that people may have to switch industries and learn more skills in order for the currently unemployed “blue collar” population to have access to this kind of jobs and the hope is that capping carbon emissions, even if it raises energy prices in the short term, will create a demand for green jobs, which could provide opportunities for meaningful work for all those workers.

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