Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
Boomer bulge brings rich but untilled field
Gregg Kilday
Reuters via Washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2007
Overview: Kilday writes about boomer representation in Hollywood films. He writes, “For as the boomers' numbers grow as a percentage of the overall population, their share of the market should be growing as well -- if only Hollywood weren't spending most of its time chasing after teens.” Moreover, “With their child-rearing years behind them, the boomers now have the time and, in many cases, the disposable income to return to the multiplex.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021300123.html
Work/Home Balance? It's Called Life; As we struggle to achieve parity between the job and personal time, we must understand that there are no cookie-cutter solutions
Kurt Ronn
BusinessWeek.com
February 13, 2007
Overview: This piece focuses on the struggle to balance work and life. Specifically, Ronn discusses the different views on work/life balance between the different generations. “The mature worker (age 55-plus) wants to continue to contribute; this group often possesses the most knowledge about the organization and has the greatest amount of experience. At this point, they are most likely either career-focused and working on projects, or enjoying their ability to give back to the community during brief sabbaticals from the workplace. Complete retirement, as their parents might have considered, is usually not an option, because longer life spans are leading to second and even third careers with the aim of finding new challenges and maintaining a certain standard of living.”
Aging population reshapes housing market; Retired baby boomers will spur demand for smaller residences
Ko Kyoung-tae
The Korea Herald
February 13, 2007
Overview: Kyoun-tae reports that “in recent years, baby boomers have led the shift in Korea's housing market as they favor large houses.” Analysts, however, predict that “the fast-ageing population may reverse the direction of the property market in the coming years.”
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2007/02/13/200702130025.asp