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.

Indeed, older workers in roles that can be digitalised are especially vulnerable to redundancy, labour watchers told The Business Times. They ci…

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