A Flexible Workforce
Flexible work arrangements are an important part of today’s employment marketplace. They accommodate a wide range of practices and lifestyles, including temporary work, employee leasing, self-employment, contracting, home-based work and part-time work.
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Caregiving in the Workplace
As parents and loved ones age, many employees find themselves in the role of caregiver to their aging family members. This caregiving role may interfere with their role as employee- through absenteeism, early departure from work, late arrival to work, personal phone calls, and emotional distraction.
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Technology and an Aging Workforce
This paper discusses the effects of America’s aging workforce on business growth and productivity and illustrates how accessible technology can equip employers and mature workers to face the challenges posed by this demographic trend.
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The Employment Policy Foundation
America’s workforce is currently facing increased responsibilities in their efforts to balance their work and family commitments. Demographic shifts have left the heart of America’s workforce–the “Baby Boom” generation–caring for their aging parents and their children at the same time. As Americans live longer, the need for eldercare will continue to grow.
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Working Caregivers
Some working caregivers find care giving a minor interlude that has positive consequences for them personally as a result of the satisfaction they experience from helping a loved one. Others discover that care giving is a complicated and difficult set of tasks that require not only personal sacrifices, but professional sacrifices as well. And others find that they cannot be successful in all parts of their lives, and their relationships, health or personal activities suffer as a result.
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Health and Safety Issues in an Aging Workforce
Along with the population as a whole, the labor force is aging. Even without a concerted effort on the part of policymakers or employers to promote longer work-lives, the number of middle-aged and older persons in the labor force will grow as the 76 million baby boomers move into and through their 40s, 50s, and 60s.
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Employer's Health Plan Cost Drivers
An informative pie-chart that clearly shows the key drivers of employers' health plan costs.
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