For decades, the organizational model of companies has been built on a linear scheme: entering the workforce, professional growth, exiting the production system. Demographic transformation is challenging this paradigm, making it necessary to rethink the relationship between people, skills, and organizations.
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Longevity no longer only concerns the social or welfare dimension, but represents a strategic variable for the economic system. The lengthening of life, the decline in birth rates, and the progressive evolution of the workforce are changing the composition of organizations and how companies must manage increasingly complex career paths.
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Change is already underway. According to the CNEL-Istat Bulletin 2025, over 40% of the Italian working population is composed of workers over 50.
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A dynamic set to strengthen in a country where the decline in birth rates, which began in the 1970s, not only means a reduction in the number of young people but also a lower future availability of workers in the age group most involved in entering the labor market.
Istat projections indicate that by 2050 the number of employed people could drop from the current 24 million to about 21 million. To support this scenario, it will be necessary to increase female participation in the workforce and, at the same time, to value the contribution of senior workers for longer.
