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There is no going back to old-fashioned lifetime employment. Companies need flexibility. Thus the long-term social costs of all the well-intentioned work- force rules that have accrued over the past few decades may have to be reconsidered.
For now, most citizens will have to scramble to adapt to the new age of the disposable worker. Says Robert Schaen, a former comptroller of Chicago-based Ameritech who now runs his own children's publishing business: "The days of the mammoth corporations are coming to an end. People are going to have to create their own lives, their own careers and their own successes. Some people may go kicking and screaming into the new world, but there is only one message there: You're now in business for yourself."