The Workforce Challenge
Ask leaders at big companies what With all of this in mind, The Boston Con-
worries them, and one of the first things they’ll mention is the challenge of managing a workforce at a time of rapid change. Jobs being transformed by automation and artificial intelligence is one big concern—even if the full effects are still a few years off. Even now, with automation just starting, many positions require new digital capabilities or deep technical expertise. They’re hard to fill.
And then there’s the impact of demographics. Older employees are retiring, and younger re- placements don’t have equivalent knowledge. If younger people want to take on these lega- cy jobs—a question in the first place—it’s only on certain terms. Younger candidates bring their own workplace expectations.
As they wrestle with these challenges—and the resulting talent imbalances—corporate leaders and economic policymakers should be taking a closer look at where people want to work, what they want in a job, and where to find needed skills. Just as companies and countries study everything from the capital markets to the weather, they must now try to get a handle on the future of the workforce. This includes finding foreign candidates at a time when immigration policy is undergoing change in many countries.
sulting Group and the online international recruitment company The Network have joined together to create one of the largest surveys ever of labor trends and work prefer- ences—366,000 people in 197 countries. (See Exhibit 1 to understand the survey scope and participants’ backgrounds.)
In taking this comprehensive approach—and by comparing our findings with those of our previous study in 2014—we set out to under- stand what has changed about people’s job preferences and attitudes toward mobility.
This year, we added questions about megatrends in the world of work, about the global workforce’s willingness to learn new skills, about their interest in working in new ways, and about their readiness to meet the challenges of a digital era. A simultaneous survey of 6,000 recruiters gave us the employer perspective. (See the appendix, “Survey Methodology.”)
Understanding global workforce attitudes
is critical for both companies and countries. Those that manage it will gain flexibility in addressing their future challenges and will have the best shot at sustaining economic growth.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Sulting
...s undergoing change in many countries. sulting Group and the online international recr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, look, still, then, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2086.0 1615.20841683 129% => OK
No of words: 375.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.56266666667 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.44309937895 2.80592935109 123% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 176.041082164 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.618666666667 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 612.9 506.74238477 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.4913056146 49.4020404114 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.888888889 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8333333333 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.66666666667 7.06120827912 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 9.0 4.38176352705 205% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.136810324816 0.244688304435 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0335282324417 0.084324248473 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0585663356726 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0672515710821 0.151304729494 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0739160236839 0.056905535591 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 78.4519038076 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.33 Out of 6
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