The decision to return to school is never an easy choice to make especially for those employees who have not really considered going back to school as an option but need to in order to increase their wages or become more competitive when acquiring for a better job. While returning school might not be an easy decision, more and more adults are finding themselves back to school with an uprising enrollment as high as 30 to 40 percent over the last five years (Ananiadou et al 289). The social trend of these adults returning to school to pursue a higher education has many impacts, not just on themselves, but as well as the companies they work for and the colleges that they attend.
Impact on Workers
Increasingly, employees are finding that they