“Nimble” is frequently used to describe how AEC human resources leaders responded to the cascade of challenges in the past year. On top of supporting field crews to help keep jobsites safe and productive amid Covid-19 outbreaks, HR teams scrambled to craft strategies for maintaining connections across a suddenly dispersed office workforce, sustain recruiting efforts with only limited access to prospective candidates and conduct sometimes difficult discussions of social justice issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.
In our last post, we looked at workforce trends related to the virtual office, gig economy, technology, and workforce shortage. In this post, we're going to continue looking at workforce trends, focusing on the challenges of multiple generations in the workplace.