Skills, mindsets are barriers to re-hiring older workers

Singapore

CHRONIC unemployment among mid-career workers, who have typically stayed in the same job for 10 to 20 years, "is not a new issue that has surfaced because of Covid-19".

That's the view of Mark Teoh, executive director of human capital consulting at Deloitte South-east Asia, who warned that a lack of change may have left these workers with "a larger gap to plug" in their skill sets.