today’s businesses are not going to take on the burdens of such a massive training effort: they will instead expect workers to dig their own hole and sharpen their own shovel, as I put it. Before anyone can get reengaged with their job, they have to get reengaged with their work, on a personal level. As I wrote,
If you don’t develop the new skills, you won’t be fired — but won’t last— and you won’t have much of a future. The company isn’t too worried about people leaving, since executives estimate that eventually Verizon could get by with one-third fewer workers,