BOOMERangs: Engaging the Aging Workforce in America

by Cash Nickerson

Like the melting of the glaciers, a crisis of undue proportions is silently unfolding in the United States.

We are living longer, much longer, than our ancestors. We are no longer young and old; there is a new third age, a potentially productive age of 65-80. As our country’s nearly 80 million Baby Boomers reach this unprecedented phase of life, many want to continue in the workforce–and we need them. Our attitudes, laws and work places need to change for us and them to adapt successfully to the age of longevity. Working and retirement should not and cannot be an “on and off switch.” In my new book, BOOMERangs, I seek to bring awareness and ideas to the forefront of our national consciousness and describe the required changes we will need to engage our aging population, including specific tips for employers, employees and governments.

100 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 5, 2014

About the author

With over $440 million in annual sales, PDS is the fourth largest engineering and Information Technology staffing firm in the United States. In addition to his work with PDS Tech, Nickerson has held a variety of legal and executive positions in his 25-plus-year career including serving as an attorney and marketing executive for Union Pacific Railroad and as an associate and then partner at Jenner & Block, one of Chicago s five largest law firms. He founded a human resources company, Workforce Strategies, which he sold in three years for high seven figures and later founded an Internet company he took public through a reverse merger. Nickerson holds a JD and MBA from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an editor of the law review and a recipient of the U.S. Steel Scholarship. Nickerson is actively licensed to practice law in Texas, California, Illinois, Nevada and Nebraska. He received the Global Philanthropy Award in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis for his support of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative and is a member of the Law School National Council. He is an avid martial artist, ranked as a third degree black belt in Kenpo Karate, as well as being a Russian Martial Arts instructor.