WebinarTuesday, October 8, 2024
The Looming Labor Shortage: Anticipated Impacts on Higher Education and the Future of Work
Speakers
Paul Fain
Co-Founder, Work Shift
Ron Hetrick
Senior Economist, Lightcast
Hannah Grieser
Researcher & Designer, Lightcast
Key Topics
A surge of retirements are coinciding with declining participation for younger generations, and those trends combined will produce a deficit of millions of workers by the end of the decade.
Our current understanding of the labor market is defined by worker abundance, like we had when Baby Boomers dominated the labor market, but we need to revise our thinking toward a mindset of worker scarcity. The labor market tightness of 2022-2023 wasn’t a one-time blip, but a precursor of the challenges to come.
This combination is driving the need for policymakers to tighten connections between education and work. Low labor participation and declining enrollments in traditional higher ed have caught the attention of business leaders and lawmakers—and AI is accelerating the urgency.
Join Paul Fain, co-founder of Work Shift and a veteran higher education journalist who focuses on the connections between education and the American workforce, in this compelling conversation with The Rising Storm authors, Ron Hetrick and Hannah Grieser. They'll explore how the looming labor crisis will impact workforce development priorities and higher ed’s role in preparing learners for the future world of work.
Download The Rising Storm report ahead of time, then complete the registration form above to join the conversation on October 8th.
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