Workplace Engineering

Another sad demographic and economic trend reported in the WSJ.

Today, more and more children are being raised by their grandparents. These grandparents provide a crucial safety net, allowing children whose parents can’t provide for them to remain in families, instead of winding up as wards of the state. But as the recession hits “grandfamilies,” that safety net is under stress.

I’ve been sitting in a number of educational sessions at the IFMA conference. A number of the lecturers have been talking about the coming crisis as the industry ages. I’ve just looked around the room in the one im at now and it looks like only a handful of us are under 40 and not that many more are under 50.