Fears of a potential recession next year may temporarily curb businesses’ hiring in the short term, the report said, with recent mass layoffs at tech giants like Meta Platforms Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. sending shockwaves through the industry. But long-term effects are likely to skew market power toward job-seekers, according to the study.“In a moment like this, with so many headlines about layoffs, it perhaps feels a little bit weird to talk about long-term hiring challenges.
In particular, the effects of an aging workforce, already accelerated by the pandemic, are becoming more acute as the median baby boomer turns 65 this year. “The baby boomer retirement has been a slow moving train wreck for the past 20 years,” Terrazas said in an interview. “The retirement crisis, in the background before the pandemic, suddenly landed.”
Moreover, workforce-age populations are expected to shrink dramatically in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany, France and China, with the report noting, “the stage is set for constant recruiting challenges.” Despite speculation earlier this year from economists that inflation would force some baby boomers back into the job market, it hasn’t held up, Terrazas said. A recent study from Indeed found that the rate of retirees re-entering the workforce had slowed, even as new retirements continued to increase.Article content
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