PodChats for FutureCIO: Building a career in the modern workplace

CXOInsights by CXOCIETY · May 3, 2022 · 10m

Decades ago, while working for a Japanese company, I read about the idea of lifetime employment. At the time I was aware of career professionals in tech companies. For instance, I would meet with career IBMers – professionals who have worked for only one company, IBM, for majority of their career.

In the case of Japan, lifetime employment was the practice of hiring workers directly out of school and retraining them until the mandatory retirement age. The idea was that it is far easier to train current employees on new skills, new ways of working, etc.

These days, of course, one’s career…