A recent survey of the UK employment market has found that employers are resorting to migrant workers to fill the ever increasing skills gap rather than utilising home grown talent that is just a bit older. The stigmatism of age still seems to exist in the market.
We are relying on the migrant workforce who, it has been estimated, have filled some 52% of vacancies across the UK in the last 10 years.
Businesses are going to have to come to terms with the fact that the older generation are a better source of employee, they they need to be retained and developed more effectively in the coming years……
Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Fraser
Discussion Area - Leave a Comment