Major Global Change

Major global changes I'd like to see over the next 5 years.

I'd like to tell you one but I rather not because I hold two major changes to heart that I want to see happen in the next 5 years.

The first is workplace monitoring, even though it has become easier than ever for employers to keep an eye on their staff; with emerging technologies, companies can monitor where employees are, what they up to but also how they are feeling whether they are stressed, tired or not getting enough exercise outside work.

Some workplace tracking technologies are already widely used. Low cost GPS systems are used to record the progress of staff who work from outside workplace environment.

However, monitoring intimate details about personal health and wellbeing which is less common place in most institution, perhaps my major reason for the change that I want to see happen over the years. Employers should want to know how much their staff exercise or how well they sleep at night or day also known as a management diagnostic tool. Performance at work is not just what one do at work. Whether there is clear correlation between levels of anxiety and stress outside the workplace and performance inside the workplace.

The second is the end of retirement; as people lived longer life expectancy at birth has increased globally according to the work health organisation. They are expected to work longer. This pressure comes from governments which struggle to afford pensions for a longer-living population and also from individuals themselves, who find it harder to make their retirement savings stretch as the average life expectancy which is above 81 in most countries.

For many older workers, remaining in employment beyond retirement age is an unsettling prospect. Eventhough legislation such as the equality act in the UK aims to prevent employers from discriminating on the basis of age, the odds are often stacked against older people applying for jobs. There is this believe that employers assume that younger people are more adaptable, cheaper, more tech -savvy and are going to stay with the organisation longer.

As a result. It is unfair to assume that older workers are less adaptable, one of the big reasons why people are not able to make very effective transition from one job to another.