The website of economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth, expert in demographics, global trends and the future of work
Can you turn departing employees into loyal alumni? When a worker leaves, most companies bid them well, perhaps doing a hasty exit interview on the way out. That, however, may be a short-sighted way to do things. Today’s guests are Dr. Alison Dachner of John Carroll University and Erin Makarius of the University of Akron, […]
Frito-Lays workers have recently settled a strike (over appalling work conditions) but that is not the end of the discussion on the best way to get snacks into bowls. Right now the answer is apparently to grind out shifts from human beings, but the next step may well be to get robots to do it. […]
Can you use scenario planning to prepare for the future and the future of work? As the pandemic has shown, you can never be completed prepared for what might happen, but planning and imagining scenarios can definitely give you an advantage. Our guest today is Lance Mortlock, the author of Disaster Proof; Scencario Planning for a […]
We are getting good news on the economy and the labor market but are the statistics telling us the whole story? Even with a surge in hiring and a fall in the unemployment, there is a core of people who have been out of the labor market for a while and who are not being […]
YOLO – you only live once. Coming out of the pandemic, a lot of people, and in particular younger people are taking that attitude and it may have economic implications. An eagerness to switch jobs or industries and to travel more could shake things up over the next few years, and there are implications for […]
Do you know what the bull whip effect is in terms of economics? A lot of us might not have known or cared about it before, but it could make a lot of difference to how robust the post-pandemic rebound turns out to be. Learn more from my Globe and Mail column here (and as […]
How important will reskilling be to our economic future and what role should business play in making it happen? And what about continuous training? Business has always been reticent about training because there is always the risk that you could lose those trained at your expense to the competition In the tech sector though, […]
How do you take someone with one set of skills and gret them ready for a job market that needs a completely different set of them? It is an issue that we had started to grapple with a lot before the pandemic, but the pandemic has really put it into sharp focus as some industries […]
Was an honor to speak to the recent ‘Ahead of the Curve’ event held by American Express for their Canadian team. I talked about the outlook for the global economy as we come out of the pandemic as well as the things to consider longer term for travel and spending. Such a great event and […]
Should we be worried about pandemic graduates? If we are to go on the history, those who graduate during recessions tend to have a much harder go of it than ‘luckier’ cohorts, and the disruptions we have seen this time around could make things worse. I drew on a new paper from the International Monetary […]
