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Here is what the HR community is saying about workforce transformation:
Portable benefit accounts
It allows individuals to manage the inevitable disruptions in their lives caused by job loss, retraining to adjust to technological change, relocation spurred by regional economic shock, local market collapses, or by diminished economic growth. This concept is championed by policy analysts: Bedford and Roger Burkhardt.
Government-run benefit exchange packages
Enables the government either in collaboration with or outside the private sector to expend benefits and coverage. An example is the affordable care act
Independent worker policies
Bridges the gap between full-time employees with regular benefits and independent contractors with no benefits. It allows businesses to provide benefits and protections that employees currently receive without fully assuming the legal costs and risks of becoming an employer. This type of package is championed by economists Seth Harris and Alan Krueger.
Paid family and medical leave
Some proposals have been developed by A E I – Brookings working group. This provides at a minimum that Americans should have eight weeks of pay at 70% of their regular salary, with a cap of $600 per week. The rationale is that 60% of US children now live in households in which all parents work. Researchers involved in developing this type of plan include Aparna Mathur and Isabel saw Hill.
Expand the earned income tax credit (E IT C)
Such policies are championed by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. Details may be found in their book “the second machine age: work, progress, and prosperity in the time of brilliant technologies.”
Expand the trade adjustment assistance (TAA) program
Such programs provide that when someone loses a job as a result of a trade deal, that individual qualifies for job retraining, income support, and job counseling.
Portable retirement support
The best-known example is the 401 (K). The proposal is designed to boost retirement savings. Such a proposal suggests that enrollment in retirement programs be made mandatory and the companies are required to improve their matching gift programs in all such programs.
Universal basic income
Provides that each citizen receives a basic income that would guarantee access to basic necessary goods. Prominent economist Philippi Von Parijs is a proponent critic of such programs worry that it diminishes the value of work and it diminishes work incentives.
Job licensing requirements
Professional licenses may be an inhibitor for individuals transitioning to the new digital economy. Some level of public assistance to ensure individuals ability to obtain appropriate licenses would be required
Lifetime learning
Ensure the ability of individuals to upgrade skills and to learn new skills in a disruptive economy beyond the traditional PreK – 12, community college and/or university
Improve distance learning options for individuals
General curricular reform
This involves the complex tasks of insuring basic skills such as the ability to follow instructions, execute defined tasks, etc. with the need for individuals in the new economy to be substantially better at negotiations, providing compassionate care, motivating teamwork, the ability design and create, and next-level problem-solving. This type of curricular reform is often champion by a common and must Andrew McAfee
Greater collaboration between and among community colleges, private businesses, and the public education system.
Advances the concept of lifelong learning.
STEM education
Finding balance associated with the new digital/gig economy along with the needs for social and cultural understanding in the public education system
Michael Butera