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Very interesting! It appears that I will have it much easier when I
want to have children and work part time. Thanks to all the women who
have pushed so hard for that! (I've got @6 years before even thinking
about it.) Also, it looks like I'll be able to do alot of my work from
home. For people who encourage the cottage industry, that's great! I
think one thing is missing from the competancy list. For businesses to
survive with their workers working at home, the businesses will have to
learn to trust and the workers will have to learn to be totally honest.
In addition, it may be a positive thing that we will need more workers
than we presently have. That will make it profitable for businesses,
instead of the government, to train the untrained people. This
transition, I think, will improve our society. (Since businesses have
competition, there will be competition to come up with the BEST
approach. The federal government doesn't think it has competition and
consequently, has not come up with a good solution.) That should end
up helping our national debt. (Unless we come up with something new to
spur it on.)
Rachael
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| I was forwarded this demographics study today, and thought it might
be of interest to the noting community, as some/a lot have projections
of where women will be in the workforce.
I found the stats on p/t, temporary and flex time particularly
interesting, if a bit disconcerting as I don't think it will help
women in the workforce to be perceieved as those who only work the
limited hours as opposed to full time.
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From: MRCSSE::BRANDIMARTE "Bob Brandimarte HPS CSSE, DTN 297-5020 22-Feb-1990 1022" 22-FEB-1990 10:33:24.08
To: @DIS:INTEREST1
CC: BRANDIMARTE
Subj: FYI...Interesting reading on Future Demographics
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Subj: Workforce of the '90's - Demographics from Harris Sussman
Subj: Demographics for the 90's
The following demographics are powerful. They represent a different world
than the the one we are acquainted with.
In the event that any of us were uncertain regarding the role of education
at Digital or the importance of Valuing Differences, the following numbers
should reinforce even the weakest of will.
Thanks to Harris Sussman for again providing a image of the future.
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FAMILY ISSUES
Only 15% of today's employees represent the "traditional workforce" of
married males with wives at home.
Almost 10% of today's employees are single parents.
Employees today are feeling stress due to work/home conflicts, and 41%
of employees who are parents want DEC to take a major role in reducing
that stress.
22% of employees who are parents worry about their children during
working hours.
45% of today's employees plan on having children in the future.
14% of the high school class of 2000 will be children of teen-aged
mothers, and 25% of the class will be poor.
Nearly 60% of mothers with children under 18 are already employed; over
half of all married women are employed.
EDUCATION
25% of the high school class of 2000 will not graduate.
48% of today's employees have no degree.
Almost 23% of today's employees attend school on their own time, an
average of 6 hours a week.
The increased cost of education, combined with the need for many
families to have several wage earners, will sharply reduce the
opportunity for teenagers to go to college. Much of the new work force
will be high school graduates or dropouts.
Computer literacy courses are expected to increase in high school
curricula.
MINORITIES AND WOMEN
Most of the increasing numbers of temporary, part-time, and flex-time
employees are women and minorities, so white males are becoming a
larger percentage of the full-time employees.
15% of those entering today's job market are white males.
As time passes, there will be many more women than men.
AGE
43% of today's employees take some responsibility for their parents. A
large number of employees' parents will become ill or die in the 1990s;
the average family has more living parents than children.
In the US, Europe, and Japan, there are more people over the age of 65
than there are under the age of 20.
INTERNATIONALISM
More than half of DEC's current revenue is from outside the US.
38% of our employees work outside the US.
Thinking styles of other nations are different, requiring that we
design our solutions differently.
The high school class of 2000 will be 15% immigrants whose primary
language is non-English.
NATURE OF THE WORK
Current headcount is 125,000.
Average age of US employees is 37.
In 1970, only 40% of the US population held jobs; today, it's 46% That
adds up to 33 million new jobs, 65% of which were taken by women.
85% of the workforce of 2000 is working now. The growth of the labor
force in the US between now and 2000 will be smaller than at any time
sine the 1930s. There is no appreciable replacement workforce, so to
fill tomorrow's jobs, we must make the unemployable employable.
Many familiar jobs are disappearing, to be replaced by some jobs that
require higher levels of training and some jobs that provide a much
lower level of training. So, the great middle class of jobs is
disappearing.
More than half the manufacturing jobs in the US in 1960 are now gone;
by the year 2000, half the remaining ones will be gone. New technology
is eliminating 65% of manufacturing jobs throughout the US; soon, Field
Service will have more employees than Manufacturing. Ironically, US
manufacturing is the key to the US balance of payments problem; if US
manufacturing can take advantage of technology to provide fast,
economical, and very flexible plants, we can then produce better and
cheaper products.
Service is 44% of the US economy and will grow to be 88% by the year
2000. Of that service force, 44% are in the information industry and
another 44% are repairing things.
US Information Services could be in economic trouble if the cost of
off-shore processing continues to decline relative to the US cost; many
companies today export their IS work.
The number one export of the US to the Pacific countries is wastepaper.
(Perhaps the IS industry is our savior, after all!)
The number of temporary, part-time, and flex-time employees is
increasing.
Rapid changes in many areas requires that workers continually learn.
Networking capabilities mean that half our employees don't need to come
to a DEC facility to do their work. By the year 2000, it is estimated
that 27 million US workers will be working at home with a network
connection with their employers.
COMPETENCIES
More ability to analyze, synthesize, think critically and creatively.
Have multiple knowledges, make decisions with incomplete data, organize
and reference information.
Problem solving, especially mathematically.
Ability to understand the high level meaning of information.
Ability to understand languages, culture, thinking style, and logic of
foreigners to the US.
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