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An employee with a company in yesterday’s workplace could safely assume that included with the job were a variety of benefits and services that the employer would supply. Benefits ranged from dental plans to pension plans, and you could often expect an employer to assume the responsibility for such things as mapping out a career plan for you.

Even your employability and expectation of being with the company on a long-term basis was a given once you had gone through the hiring process and had landed a full-time job. Today, having a full-time job is no guarantee that your future with the company is assured. Your security is tied to the value that the company perceives you to bring to their operation at any given time.

More companies are looking at employees as commodities; that is, we will pay you for the set of skills that you bring to us but benefit packages, career planning, continuing education, upgrading of skills, and those types of issues are viewed as costly overhead, and the onus to provide for them has shifted from the company to the employee.

The consensus among experts on the workplace is that today, everybody is a temporary worker and the only security you can expect is in having a set of current, marketable skills that are in demand.