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everything that has worked for organizations and leaders in the past—rules, best practices, business models, mind-sets—is being challenged

Receding Boundaries, Emerging Opportunities, And New Challenges

Many older workers — fully 69 percent in one study — found themselves retiring earlier than they expected.

41 percent of surveyed workers

envision transitioning into retirement by reducing hours…or by working in a different capacity that is less demanding or brings greater personal satisfaction.” The problem: Only about half of surveyed workers in their 50s and 60s said their companies allow workers to reduce their hours or shift to a less-stressful or less-demanding position.

potential for quickly scaling solutions

four types of private-sector stakeholders who are involved in securing partnerships.

Each has access to different resources, and therefore a different role

But what impact does this new more virtual workforce have on employee engagement and development?  That question is increasingly on the minds of leading employers, as telework moves from the fringes to the mainstream for talent-minded companies.

The workforce is currently in a period of significant adjustment – moving from one way of doing business to another.  While workplace technology has caught up to this new remote working style, the leadership and management practices of most institutions still need refining to support this new workforce. 

“elastic workplace”.[4]

Employers are scrambling to figure out how to attract and retain this new more flexible, entrepreneurial, and purpose-driven workforce. 

hile this is certainly not true for every employee, one of the greatest and growing challenges that Common Impact hears from companies is that employees vocalize an enormous demand for wanting to give back to the community – but then don’t sign up for the opportunities that their employers provide. 

No level of creative marketing and or well-placed engagement carrot can replace the empathy and experience that drives true engagement.  We need to connect our people more deeply, more simply, to the people we’re trying to serve through our community impact work.  

"Technology is an enabler; it is not the solution," he adds. Further, using high-tech tools can be a solitary act that creates "unintended opportunities for isolation. This idea that people are going to get all their socialization through the Internet is just not going to happen.""People think that somehow boomers are going to trump biology" in terms of being able to stay technically proficient as they get older, Collins says, "but it's not going to happen."People with Parkinson's, for example, face challenges in using most of the small, touch-screen devices now on the market, he observes. The new iPhone has won raves for its digital assistant, called Siri. But what if the user can't hear? Or what if they have macular degeneration and can't see the screen on a computing device?