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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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e and com-position of the local labor marketwas being studied. Now, AT&Ts Administrative Services people areapplying a new statistical methodfor labor market analysis whichyields a more accurate picture of po-tential new employees. While thisstudy is now being done after thesite was chosen rather than before,it should provide valuable insightinto labor availability and otherdata needed for further planningin the area. The indispensability of suchinsight is apparent when one con-siders the fact that, during the dec-ade of the seventies, the Bell com-panies across the country willconstruct about 1,600 new build-ings to meet demands for service.Staffing those new facilities will callfor about 300,000 new employees.The experience of the Bell Systemcompanies has been that, in roundnumbers, for every 100 people whoseek work, only 10 are hired; andof those 10, just three are still thereat the end of a year. In terms of thedecade now beginning. Bell com-panies will interview about 10 mil-
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lion people, to hire one million, tonet 300,000. Just where thosepeople will be found will be an im-portant factor in just where thosenew buildings will be located. The critical issue, of course, isthe kind of forecasting which takesaccount of human realities. Formore is involved in estimating alabor market than simply countingthe local population or computingfuture growth. There are certainfacts of life in this nation thatshould be pinned to any employerswall at least for the next 10 years:. There will be fewer teen-agersavailable than there were in the six-ties, both in absolute numbers andas a percentage of the total popu-lation and the labor force.. There will be more older, marriedwomen as opposed to the formerprevalence of younger, single girls.. There clearly will be more non-white people in most of the coun-trys larger cities. • Large industrial employers willdepend heavily on labor drawn fromthe city rather than from peopleliving in suburbs or small towns. Big cities: econo

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