The workforce of the future promises to be very different from that of the past. A generation ago, there were few workers over the age of 65, but in the future we will see many more employees remain on the job longer than ever before. At the same time, as global markets grow more closely integrated, companies are having to reinvent the workplace, which requires more skilled, more reliable, and more flexible employees. Benefits for the Workplace of the Future explores how workforce and workplace changes are reshaping the form and design of employee benefits and what these trends portend for the future of compensation.
An increasingly diverse range of workers and new types of companies are forcing a redefinition of what it means to be an employee, what it means to offer someone a job, and how to compensate workers. These changes are spurring nontraditional benefits, such as child and elder care, flexible medical benefits, employee assistance programs, and investment education. Major developments in the pension and health care arenas provide new opportunities and challenges for rank and file workers as they are asked to take on more responsibility for their own benefits design.
Contributors to the volume—academics, employers, consultants, and policymakers—evaluate these trends and their implications. They chart new methods for developing benefits plans and provide assessments of past trends and clear-eyed forecasts for future benefit challenges. The book will be invaluable to those who seek to structure and benefit from well-designed compensation packages.
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"Twenty contributors, an eclectic group of academics, employers, consultants, and policy makers, explore how workforce and workplace changes influence the design of future employee benefits in the US. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice
"A rich and multifaceted perspective on crucial longer-term workplace and benefits trends, and their implications to U.S. corporations. Skillfully mixing the insights of practitioners, consultants, industry pundits, researchers, and academics, the editors have compiled a comprehensive and thought-provoking assessment of the shape and challenges of the employer/employee relationship of the future."—PEF
About the Author
Olivia S. Mitchell is Professor of Insurance and Risk Management and Executive Director of The Pension Research Council at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. David S. Blitzstein is Director of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Michael Gordon is an attorney in Washington, D.C., specializing in labor law. Judith F. Mazo is Senior Vice President and Director of Research for the Segal Company.
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"The essays in this volume examine how benefits and compensation packages will respond to the need for economic restructuring, demographic shifts and changes in the role of government versus private sector. The chapters in the first section deal with developments in the future workplace and outline the implications for benefit coverage and design. The authors in the second section look at challenges to benefits and compensation design such as recession and economic volatility, the interaction of business conditions with the slower labor growth predicted for the future, and the benefit effects of the evolving labor-management relationship. The case and sector studies in the last three chapters provide insights into specific company and sectoral practices."
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The future workforce promises to be quite different from that of the past. As global markets grow more closely integrated, companies are having to reinvent the workplace, which requires more skilled, more reliable, and more flexible employees. This book explores how anticipated workforce and workplace changes will alter the form and design of employee benefits.
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Nearly two decades ago, the Hudson Institute announced an important demographic shift in America's workforce (Johnston 1987). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
various flexible staffing arrangements, contract company workers, retiree health insurance coverage, free agent workforce, high discounters, multiemployer plans, retiree insurance, free agent workers, pension environment, pension arena, nonstandard jobs, help supply services, large private establishments, multiemployer pension plans, permanent job loss, outside hiring, agency temporaries, economic realities test, aging labor force, pension design, pension accruals, tenure levels, retirement wealth, cash balance plan, alternative work arrangements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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various flexible staffing arrangements, contract company workers, retiree health insurance coverage, free agent workforce, high discounters, multiemployer plans, retiree insurance, free agent workers, pension environment, pension arena, nonstandard jobs, help supply services, large private establishments, multiemployer pension plans, permanent job loss, outside hiring, agency temporaries, economic realities test, aging labor force, pension design, pension accruals, tenure levels, retirement wealth, cash balance plan, alternative work arrangements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, Working Paper, Appendix Table, Industrial Relations, University of Pennsylvania Press, Labor Relations Review, Male Female, Bureau of the Census, Pension Research Council, Princeton University, Census Bureau, Government Printing Office, Great Depression, Silicon Valley, Conference Board, Journal of Human Resources, Oxford University Press, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, World War, American Management Association, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Harvard University Press New!
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- Pensions in the Public Sector (Pension Research Council Publications) by Olivia S. Mitchell on page 132, page 283, and Back Matter
- Fundamentals of Private Pensions by Dan M. McGill on page 132, page 150, and Back Matter
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- A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States (Pension Research Council Publications) by Robert L. Clark in Back Matter
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