Your memory is good, Karen. Actually tho', recruiters who were outside sources working with the companies, knew that in the mid 80's....In fact, we had an entire conference dedicated to the notions listed below before 1990....The gentleman who started one of the major International temp services wrote a book about the "employee snowman"...except it would be different. The head would be very small, and it would have a big round body. These "balls" would represent the employee group, and management group....very few management types, and multi-trained employees to fill in wherever they were needed.
This concept didn't set well with many of the unions as you might imagine.
One conference I attended in the early 1990's was the concept of the "new" employee, having at least SEVEN CAREERS or More in their lifetime...NOT jobs, but completely different, and separate, careers.
Those years were the start of the tech boomlet, and many of the boomers were hot for that idea/concept.....didn't want to give the employer much allegiance at all...UNTIL the employeer started letting THEM go, not the other way around. Funny how attitudes change, isn't it?
It's been at least ten years now since employment professionals have been talking about life-long learning, about how careers wouldn't last a lifetime, how corporations were no longer handing out gold watches, how employees have to take responsibility for their own careers |
