31st Dec 2007
Trends in the Workplace in 2008
I’m going to compile a list of trends you may see in the workplace in the next year:
- adoption of sustainable practices (some greenwashed and some sincere);
- increase in age discrimination lawsuits and stories of Boomers forced out of jobs;
- increasingly crappy health insurance including increasing premiums and decreasing benefits all around.
If you’d like to make a prediction about a workplace trend, feel free to leave it in comments, and we’ll check back in a couple of months.
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I see something appropriately insidious, clearly motivated by Satan, that goes beyond just whittling away of benefits. With the coming recession, companies are inevitably going to find a way to save money and rest assured it won’t be at the expense of the yearly salary of their CEO. If that sound vague, it is, but I’m clearly not smart enough/motivated enough by evil to know precisely what it will be.