How Employers Need To Change For Employees’ Longer Lives
‘How Employers Need To Change For Employees’ Longer Lives’, Forbes by Lynda Gratton and Andrew J Scott.
23rd June 2020
It is imperative that corporate practice catches up with the needs of a hundred-year life, the ebb and flow that a 60-year career entails and the flexibility that new technologies will demand.
The three-stage life is deeply embedded in the approach of corporations to their workforce: The young are recruited as they leave full-time education; “high potentials” are promoted in their late twenties and accelerated up several more rungs of the promotion ladder and a hard stop is established for those in their late fifties or mid-sixties.