Sometimes an issue seems to capture the essence of an era, wrapping up many elements into a single, pertinent theme. As chair of the ADCS workforce development policy committee, I sometimes fear I’ll nod off to sleep murmuring ‘workforce, workforce, workforce’ and wake up still murmuring ‘it’s the workforce, stupid’.
I’m aware of the old aphorism ‘to a hammer, everything looks like a nail’; we shape our frame of reference around our own interests and as a result we tend to see what we go looking for. Of course, I see workforce challenges everywhere!
That’s my remit and my focus as a policy committee chair. However, it’s been illuminating to me this week to be in several discussions with colleagues and partner organisations for whom workforce is also the dominant problem.
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