Many organisations are recruiting older workers and even retired members of staff as a result of difficulties experienced world-wide in recruiting enough suitably qualified staff, a recent global study has found.
The 2014 Global Employee Benefits Watch, by Thomsons Online Benefits, found that as many as 69% of companies surveyed said they expect to face a skills shortage in the next five years.
As a result of this, 35% reported changing their recruitment focus and looking to employee groups that previously might have been thought of as marginalised.
Around 24% of companies said they intend to hire more a greater number of younger employees, and 10% have said they expect to recruit from a pool of older workers.
Interestingly, as many as 23% of respondents said they intended to rehire employees who had previously retired from the company.
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