Employees should also take charge of their own reskilling and upgrading

IN a newly published survey by NTUC LearningHub, employees lamented that employers are not doing enough to upskill them to full potential and asked for more to be done.

Only one third of employees, some 32 per cent, agree or strongly agree that their company provides them with the right training opportunities to enhance work performance. Almost half, about 47 per cent, are not confident that their current job will be able to support them in their career growth.

The findings were published in The New Normal of Sector Skills report which gathered the perspectives of 367 business leaders and 567 full-time employees working in Singapore, with the aim to assess the adequacy of training and employment opportunities across six major industry clusters here. Only one in four employees agree that their potential is maximised at their workplace. A large majority of employees, some 71 per cent, expressed their wish that their company provide more support to help with the upgrading of skills.