London — The coronavirus pandemic is transforming workplaces worldwide, with offices and factory floors adjusting to social-distancing rules. For metal-pressing company Bruderer UK, it has underscored a weakness in the British economy that the management has been grappling with for years.
From producers of medical packing components to truck drivers and agriculture, the pandemic has made the need to address the rapidly ageing workforce more urgent. Finding younger people able — or willing — to invest as much as £5,000 in qualifying for a licence to drive a truck is not easy. The job typically pays only marginally higher than the average wage and a life on the road doesn’t appeal to everyone.
Trucking is an extreme case, but there is an economy-wide shift as the birth rate drops to a record and better health care prolongs people’s active lives. Just more than 11% of over-65s are still working, more than double the proportion 20 years ago. While a higher activity rate is a positive for the economy, relying on those older workers with no pipeline of new recruits to replace them is not.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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