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Skills, mindsets are barriers to re-hiring older workers
Published Fri, Sep 11, 2020 · 09:50 PM
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.
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