The Realities of Joblessness in Today’s Global Market: The Impact upon the Employee and Employer

Abstract

When economic issues are not up close and personal, it often becomes easier to distance yourself from the reality of the environment. Yet, all around us there are people we know whose dreams are being crushed. People cannot retire when they planned to, kid’s dreams for college are being challenged, and families are being torn apart due to the psychological stresses being imposed as a result of the economy.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

—Albert Camus¹