The next great workplace challenge: 100-year careers
Scientists expect people to live routinely to 100 in the coming decades, and as long as 150. Which also suggests a much longer working life lasting well into the 70s, 80s, and even 100, according to researchers with Pearson and Oxford University.
Quick take: Thinkers of various types are absorbed in navigating the age of automation and flat wages, but their challenge will be complicated by something few have considered — a much-extended bulge of older workers.
That includes an even harder time balancing new blood and experience, and sussing out the best basic education for lives probably traversing numerous professions. “How will we ever prepare someone in 16 years for a 100-year career?” Pearson’s Amar Kumar tells Axios.
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