"The Perfect Labor Storm" website provides information and statistics for workforce trends, demographics, and forecats about the projected U.S. labor shortage. They offer 642 facts about this shortage. Here are a few of these facts and a link to the entire list:
Fact #5
The 50 and older population from 2000-2050 will grow at a rate 68 times faster than the rate of growth for the total population
Source: Beyond Workforce 2020, Hudson Institute
Fact #6
One-fifth of this country's large, established companies will be losing 40 percent or more of their top- level talent in the next five years.
Source: Development Dimensions International
Fact #27
45 percent of workers want to change jobs at least every three to five years, up from 26 percent in 1999.
Fact #41
By 2010 we will have 167,754,000 skilled jobs to fill in the United States alone.
Fact #42
By 2010 we will have only 157,721,000 people in the workforce to fill those jobs.
Fact #103
The cost of replacing a senior executive averages two to five times his or her annual salary.
Source: Training and Development, February 2004
Fact #166
For dual career couples with kids under 18, the combined work hours grew from 81 a week in 1977 to 91 in 2002. Source: Families and Work Institute
The Perfect Labor Storm Facts. [perfectlaborstorm.com]
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