The mood on Wall Street is soaring along with company profits. But nearly one-in-four employees are feeling the stress according to a recent workplace survey. Many companies are focusing on cost-cutting to keep profits growing. “Because of high unemployment, management...

Despite prolonged high unemployment, employers are struggling to find qualified skilled workers? How is this possible? “Everyone has been caught flatfooted,” according to author/human capital expert Edward Gordon... “we only have 20% to 25% of the current workforce that fits into jobs that are in high demand right now.

Despite prolonged high unemployment, employers are struggling to find qualified skilled workers? How is this possible? “Everyone has been caught flatfooted,” according to author/human capital expert Edward Gordon... “we only have 20% to 25% of the current workforce that fits into jobs that are in high demand right now.

Thanks in part to the recession, for the first time on record there are more seniors than teenagers in the American labor force. What does that mean for the future?

For nearly four decades Baby Boomers have been in the driver’s seat of politics, consumer trends, lifestyle decisions, and jobs.

But 2010 was supposed to be the turning point when Baby Boomers left the workforce en masse, retired off into the sunset, and turned the workforce over to heir apparent Generation X and the up-and-coming Millennials.

But thanks in part to the recession, for the first time on record there are more seniors than teenagers in the American labor force.

The orange line in the chart refers to the number of teenagers — workers aged 16-19 — who are in the labor force, meaning they either have jobs or are actively looking for jobs. The blue line shows the number of workers over age 65 who are in the labor force.

As you can see, starting last fall the number of older workers surpassed the number of teenage workers for the first time since at least 1948, when the Labor Department first began collecting statistics. If you look at just the

A recent New York Times article cited three primary reasons for the flip?

1. There was always a certain percentage of Baby Boomers and the oldest generation, the Veterans, who would continue to work.

2. Older people ...