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While many individuals look toward the future with un-questioned optimism, there are good reasons to be cautious and less than enthusiastic. The years to come may be the worst of times for many people. Take several examples which indicate a need to be cautiously optimistic. Factory workers who remain unemployed after five years will have received an industrial death sentence of continuing unemployment, under-employment, or socio-economic decline. Many poor, unskilled minorities, with high birth rates, are destined to remain at the bottom of society; their children may fare no better. Large cities in the Northeast and North Central regions, and even small communities in these and other regions, will have difficult adjustment, if not survival, problems. And we should not forget that America has not solved its energy and environmental problems.

The best of times are when you are gainfully employed, enjoy your work, and look to your future with optimism. In the turbulent society, people experience both the best and worst of times at the same time. Those who are unprepared for the growing uncertainty and instability of the turbulent society may get hurt.

We lack a healthy sense of reality in facing change. Indeed, the future is seldom what we think it is. Only recently have we begun to take a second look at the high-tech and service revolutions and raised some sobering questions about their impact on work and the workplace. We have not fully explored unanticipated consequences of new structural changes for individuals and society.



The 25 changes we forecast will create dislocations for individuals, groups, organizations, communities, and regions. These dislocations will require some form of public-private intervention. For example, the question of renewable energy resources has not been adequately dealt with in relation to the high-tech revolution. Many of the key metals for fueling the high-tech economy are located in politically unstable regions of Africa as well as in the Soviet Union. Such resources must be secured or substitutions found in order for the revolution to proceed according to optimistic predictions. Capital formation, investment, and world markets must also be secure and stable.

New management systems must evolve in response to the changes. In other words, the key factors are variables or "ifs", and not the constants underlying most predictions of the future. As such, they are unpredictable.

The clearer picture of unanticipated consequences of technological changes are already evident on the changing assembly lines, in the automated offices, and in the electronic cottages of today. While automation often creates more jobs as it displaces workers - usually at higher skill levels - the jobs may be psychologically and financially less rewarding. Supervising robots eight hours a day can be tedious and boring work with few on-the-job rewards. The same is true for the much touted "office of the future". Interacting at a work station with a computer terminal and screen eight hours a day is work that many may find tedious, tiring, and boring; and job burnout may accelerate.

The electronic cottage has similar unanticipated consequences. Many people may miss the daily interaction with fellow workers - the gossip, the politics, the strokes. Instead of being rewarding, work at home can become drudgery. It also may be low paying work, a 21st century version of the sweat shop.

The optimists often neglect the fact that the nature of work itself provides rewards. Many people intrinsically enjoy the particular job they perform. Furthermore, many rewards are tied to the human dimension of work - the interaction with others. Thus, the high-tech and service society will have to deal with serious management and motivational problems arising from the changing nature of work and the workplace.

The coming changes in the nature of work and the work-place argue for a greater emphasis on networking for finding jobs changing careers in the decade ahead:

CHANGE: Networking plays an increasingly important role in the employment process for both employers and job seekers.

Communication of vacancy information continues be a major problem in the employment process due to the extreme decentralization and fragmentation of the job market As competition becomes high for many positions and fewer qualified candidates are available for other positions, both employers and job seekers rely more and more on networking to identify qualified candidates and communicate qualifications to employers.

CHANGE: Job finding organizations play an increasing role in the employment process as well as increase the amount of networking taking place in the job market.

Intermediaries between employers and candidates, such as employment agencies, temporary employment agencies, headhunters, and executive search firms, encounter difficulties finding qualified candidates for their clients. As a result, they increasingly use networking strategies for finding qualified individuals.

More and more individuals will change jobs and careers in order to overcome the boredom and burnout accompanying many of the new jobs or work situations of tomorrow. And even if the high-tech and service society does not emerge in the form outlined by us and other forecasters, the need to re-career will become necessary given the job and career uncertainty of a turbulent society. The major source and method for making job and career changes will be one's networks and networking activities which will quickly generate information, advice, job leads, and invitations to interview in an increasing-ly chaotic job market where "who you know" is just as important to getting a job and advancing one's career as is "doing the job".
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