Recently the folks over at Pew Research released a very interesting report on The New America which explores how the American population is changing and what it might look like through 2060.  According to Pew there are two big shifts we are seeing.  “Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray.”  Take a look at the animation below to see how our population is shifting from a pyramid to a rectangle.

America's morphing age pyramid

 

The fact that our population is going to eventually become older and more diverse is a pretty significant trend that organizations need to be paying attention to.  Today many people are retiring at a later age and in fact many are not even retiring in the traditional sense, instead they are becoming freelancers after their employee tenure is complete.  Obviously it’s a bit tough to predict what the world is going to look like by 2060 (let alone what it will look like in the next 5 years), but I believe that we will see an ever growing reliance on the freelancer economy as a result of this (and other factors).  Organizations will create their own internal freelancer environments focused on tasks and projects instead of long-term careers and people will have the ability to work for multiple companies at the same time or be a part of multiple tasks/projects within a single company.

 

 

 

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