Have You Talked to Your Chief People Officer Lately?

If you want the people in your organization to have long, productive tenures, you’ve got to consider how dramatically the workforce is changing and how you can apply lessons from consumer products to your objective of keeping them productive and profitable over much longer periods of time.
Published on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

If you have, then you may have gotten an earful about why your company isn’t keeping its employees as long as you’d like.

If you haven’t, get ready for an earful!

Six key workforce trends are about to make a big impact on your company (if they haven’t already):

Shrinking pool of skilled labor
Changing family structures
More women entering the workforce than men
Men admitting to work-life “balance” problems and historic dissatisfaction levels
Generations X and Y placing equal value on work and home
New workplace technologies that work so well you’ve got to change

Men and women are equally fed-up about the choices they are forced to make to find success advancing the proverbial corporate ladder. How many more will continue to flee from the organizations to try and build lives that do have significance personally and professionally? Learn how to implement an elegant framework that considers the four dimensions of individual careers: Pace, Workload, Location and Role in your company by following our posts over the next few days and attending our first GrowingBusinessLink online learning program: Mass Career Customization.

Register at the Oracle Featured Resource Center and be sure to receive an invitation to this signature event featuring Cathy Benko, vice chairman and talent officer for Deloitte and architect of the firm’s own efforts at career customization across large groups of employees. She’ll share first-hand tips on how to build a framework that boosts recruitment and retention and offer insights on how your own career can benefit.