The cliche’ that people are expendable will no longer hold true. Our workforce will be much different and yet no one seems to give a hoot about how they are going to retain their best employees as the new job market will begin to unfold.

Employee engagement with A-level talent needs to be developed now because once they leave, they do not come back.

The surveys I mention in the article with its uncompensated, yet helpful links are merely two of dozens that point to profound changes in the global economy that are likely to be permanent even after the recession is well in our rear-view mirror. That these studies and surveys are financed by businesses is not surprising nor especially troubling, at least to me. Who else is doing such research? Academics? Certainly, which is one reason Vivek Wadhwa is included. Unfortunately, the list of non-commercial entities undertaking such research as an intellectual exercise is tiny.

Discounting the research simply because the sponsor figured it was a good way to get some PR, doesn’t make sense to me.

I don’t doubt any of the reported trends since nearly every legitimate retrospective measure has seen them for months. My issue is with the framework around which this data is presented. It’s like relying on a TV commercial to make informed decisions about your health.

Advertorial is supposed to be subtly transparent but this has a blinking neon sign pointing at it.