Workplace divide set to ‘widen rapidly’

February 16, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Career News and Advice

A rapidly widening gap between skilled and unskilled employees will result in
the country’s workforce being split into the “elite and the excluded”
over the next 10 years, says a report published today.

By Roland Gribben

Published: 7:00AM GMT 16 Feb 2010

By 2020 the elite – workers in technical, professional and managerial posts –
will occupy a more powerful role, pressuring employers to radically rethink
how they attract and retain their specialist skills.

On the other side of the jobs scale almost a million workers, typically
unskilled men, with poor prospects and limited expectations, will fall into
the …

Read the original article at Telegraph

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