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The Perfect Labor
Storm is fast approaching and The Perfect Labor Storm 2.0 is "powerful stuff – enough to make any manager gasp" says one reader, the best forecast you can buy to plan your employee
recruitment and retention programs.
Aging workers, retiring baby boomers, rising health care
costs, shortages of skilled workers, generational gaps,
work ethics are just a few of the workforce demographic
and socio-economic events that are colliding to produce
the biggest shortage of skilled workers in the United States
and many other developed countries.
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What is the Perfect Labor Storm? Watch here.
See how workforce trends and facts will change the way you do business. Then purchase The Perfect Labor Storm.
Hear and see for yourself for what is sure to produce more
and more turnover, vacancies, and worker shortages.
Your guide for the tour is workforce expert Ira S. Wolfe,
founder of Success
Performance Solutions, who coined the phrase "Perfect
Labor Storm" in 1999.
Just like in the movie namesake,
several seemingly innocuous weather events collided off
the Atlantic coast in the spring of 1991 to produce one
of the most powerful weather storms on record ("The Perfect
Storm"). Just a decade later, changes in world economics
and demographics are beginning to collide in what is shaping
up to be "The Perfect Labor Storm".
Many managers
and business owners and even economists and strategists
are hoping for a break in the socio-economic "climate"
and praying this storm too will pass. Human resource professionals,
executives, and managers alike wrongly believe they are
the isolated targets of some insidious plot to abscond with
their workers or else are just magnets for under-skilled
workers with poor work ethics. And not unlike the Andrea
Gail which was sucked under by the colossal waves even two
days before the full force of the storm hit, their businesses
too will sink with this short-sighted, wait-and-see attitude.
All workforce trends indicate future
employee shortages will not blow over for decades. Many
solutions such as retaining older workers longer are flawed.
Since health care and retirement costs explode for workers
over age 55, how will businesses afford to insure these
workers....and without health care and retirment benefits,
why will they work? Even worse the full force of the storm
won't hit until the end of this decade.
The Perfect Labor
Storm has no industry or geographic boundaries. From plumbers
to dental hygienists to teachers to border patrol to radiologists,
virtually every industry at nearly every level is affected
by shortages of workers with the right skills and attitudes
to do all the jobs.
What follows
on this website are hundreds and hundreds of facts and reasons
why The Perfect Labor Storm will not allow worker shortages
to go away for a long, long time.
The Perfect Labor
Storm makes a great keynote address for Chambers of Commerce
and business organizations. To schedule Ira S. Wolfe to
address your next meeting or convention or to schedule radio/TV
interviews, click here.
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