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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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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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