Studies show that the number of retirements in the coming decade will outpace the number of Millennial and Gen Z graduates entering the workforce. Those predictions have created a whirlwind of activity across many different sectors seeking to employ laborers, tradesmen, technicians, operators and more. What will the workforce look like in 2025 and beyond? What can we do to ensure our industry is more attractive than others seeking to attract the same, limited set of potential employees? The engineering, construction and construction management professions are competing with myriad manufacturing industries, both big and small businesses, may of which are working to attract the future workforce now. This presentation will explain the workforce dilemma, describe attributes of Millennial and Gen Z generations that differ from that of the retiring Boomer generation, and discuss what individual companies can do to ensure their continued viability well into the future. This is an important topic to investigate your current business mindset and adjust how you speak about, think about and treat the incoming employees who by 2025 will likely make up 75% of the workforce.   

The American Workforce - Future predictions and suggested plans for action today

ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (ICTD 2021) is organized by the Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) of ASCE to facilitate the exchange of information, knowledge, and best practices among transportation and development practitioners and researchers, public infrastructure owners, policymakers, government engineers and planners, operations managers, and leading academics from around the world.

Paper Proceedings: https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784483534 | https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784483541