Why 2008 Will be the Year of the Web Worker…
Here’s a link to a site called webworkerdaily.com. They have decided that 2008 will be the ‘Year of the Webworker’ and they’ve invited comments from readers as to why that will be the case. I agree with all that has been written - although I think we are heading into the decade of the webworker rather than the year of it. It may be a slower transition than some would like, but the person who wrote that Gen Y will demand flexible solutions to give them balance has it bang on. I figure it will take Gen Y a decade to hit their peak influence in the workforce, but as they get closer, the changes will grow exponentially.
Vic Janzen responds:
Posted: December 27th, 2007 at 2:45 pm →
Dear Linda Nazareth
I have been a hobby demographics enthusiast since reading David Foot’s first edition of Boom, Bust & Echo. I also read his up-date from around 2002. Last Spring I did a workshop for the International Log Luilders’ Association on strategiizing for the retiring boomers since boomers account for about 85% of log house customers in Canada and the US.
I adapted my workshop for our professional journal which I would be happy to send you if you are interested in glancing at it. Assuming this note gets to you personally. I have never visited a blog before. I may become addicted to yours. I will be 64 in June of 2008, hence I am not as swift in the ether as you young people. Indeed, I often have to wait for my grandchildren to come over to solve computer problems for me. Getting better. Hey, I’ve got a web-site!
My wife hesitated to buy me your book for fear that I would become even more objectional at social gatherings in expounding theories based on my fanaticism in this area.
I am much enjoying your book and the resonance I find there with my own suspicions and observations. I would like to comment further to you as I progress through the book.
A brief comment on the decade of the web-worker, which is supposed to be what I am responding to——————-
I then wonder about the more crying need for skilled tradesmen, especially in Canada. Perhaps there are too many workers sitting at computers. I have a small construction company in my old age and I hear the same story everywhere. The workers are getting old and they are not being replaced by industry, government or the education system. All construction areas echo this as well as non-construction areas, with likelly the exception of factory workers in Central Canada. However, an adjustment of the dollars in time or becoming accustomed to a strong CDN dollar may change that too.
I have more work than I can handle and I’m actually an imposter carpenter, having spent 25 of my nearly 40 years in the workplace as a teacher. Retired in 1999 while I still had some physical strength to do something else and its been great. But us old guys are all getting tired or decrepit.
Construction workers are, or so I understand from my reading, the oldest average age of workers in Canada.
Do you think about these area of work in your research and speaking?
Again, thank you for the book (The Liesure Economy). I will track down your
The Ever After Effect sometime.
Sincerely
Vic Janzen
Columbia Valley, BC
Linda responds:
Posted: December 31st, 2007 at 10:11 am →
Hi Vic..
Sorry about not getting back to you sooner - I’ve been on a bit of a holiday break. I’m glad you like the book and would love to get your ongoing comments (in fact, if you do like it, would love it if you posted a review on the Chapters or Amazon sites).
You are absolutely right about the skileld worker issue. That one is sort of close to my heart, since I started my career as an economist with the federal government and my primary work was in identifying ’skill shortages’. Skilled trades were at the top of the list then - in the late 1980s - and unfortunately identifying the problem seems to have done little to solve it. I do talk about that issue, and many other human resources issues, in my presentations depending on the group I am speaking to.
I’d love to see your article for your professional journal - if you get a chance, send it to me at linda@leisureeconomy.com.
All the best for 2008!
Linda
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