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Describe the workforce shifts in types of jobs during the past hundred years. What implications have these shifts created for today's human resource managers?

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Describe the workforce shifts in types of jobs during the past hundred years.

One hundred years ago we were in the midst of the industrial revolution. The workforce was industrial based meaning people worked on assembly lines in factories. Working on an assembly line is lonely, repetitive work that rarely creates a challenging work environment. The workforce was primarily industrial based leaving little room for family run ...

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