A look at global workforce by year 2020 & ways to manage it

The paper attempts to study and examine the past and present global workforce and based on it tries to anticipate the trend of corporate workforce in 2020. It looks at the pattern in India, as against other countries. The endeavor is to map the paradigm evolvement of workforce from the typical 9 to 5 set-up to that of work-from-home set up and its pros and cons. It also looks at the demographics of workforce, the role of women workforce and the entry of younger generation. It traces upon the challenges and strengths of the workforce and based on statistics and experts views tries to recommend ways of managing and motivating it.

The paper also, based on researches, states how important it is to acquire the right skill set to fit the job requirements in the coming decade.