Greenspan: high tech boosts job anxiety, requires more on-the-job training
Job fears
The central banker said that despite a strong economy and low unemployment, more employees fear they could lose their jobs than was the case in 1991, at the bottom of the last recession. Greenspan spoke at the National Skills Summit in Washington.
‘The rapidly evolving work environment in which the skill demands of their jobs are changing can lead to very real anxiety and insecurity about losing their jobs,” Greenspan said. “Those pressures are likely to remain intense.”
Greenspan noted a continued “need for considerable investment in human capital. Workers must be equipped not simply with technical know-how but also with the ability to create, analyze, and transform information and to interact effectively with others,” according to Greenspan.
For the full text of Greenspan’s speech, go to: http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Speeches/2000/20000411.htm