2021 Workforce-Workplace Forecast Part 1 Every year at about this time, The Herman Group issues its annual workforce-workplace forecast. This Herman Trend Alert is intended to provide employers with insights about what to expect in the coming years, so that they may position themselves for success. This year, there is so much to talk about, it will take me two weeks of reporting to share everything. While no one would dispute that 2020 was a challenging year, 2021 may be even more challenging. . .as we emerge from Normal 2.0 into Normal 3.0. If you have been reading my Herman Trend Alerts, you already know that I define where we are now as Normal 2.0, a new version of Normal to which we have evolved. Post-COVID-19, we will have evolved into a still different Normal; I call it Normal 3.0.