“It’s time to face a tough truth: we might have emotionally healthier employees in the future, but they may not have a place to be employed.”
So begins what may be the most important article I’ve read in 2022.
Covid’s disruptions can be classified as cyclical (short term, visible today) or secular (long run, structural, not easily visible in the current moment. A short, one page post from Chief Executive Magazine suggests that some of the disruptions to the workforce that we refer to as the War for Talent are not only permanent but have significant consequences you may not have fully appreciated.
In particular, the article suggests that a permanenttwo-tier workforce is being created and with-it profound challenges. “The deep existential question, the one that most of us have not yet discussed is, who will lead this company in the future?…This existential question will give rise to two classes of employees in organizations…”
If you don’t read anything else in this newsletter this week; be sure to read “#ActYourWage:The Leader’s Existential Question.”
