Training 'vital during the downturn'
Date Posted: 18/04/2010
Firms must invest in training so their employees have the skills needed to lift them out of the current economic downturn, it has been claimed.
Businesses should invest in the skills of their employees as the recession bites, according to one expert.
Mark Cahill, managing director of recruitment agency Manpower UK, explained that the skills of workers will always be a firm's biggest asset and action must be taken to avoid a talent drain.
"Employers should take the opportunity now to re-skill and retrain workers so they are absolutely best placed for the upturn when it comes," he said.
Mr Cahill's comments come as Manpower's quarterly Employment Survey revealed that just five per cent of firms expect to increase their headcount in the next three months.
A further 11 per cent expect to cut jobs while 81 per cent are not planning to change staffing levels over the same period.
Yesterday, the British Chambers of Commerce predicted that unemployment will peak at 3.2 million in 2010, meaning around a tenth of the UK's working population will be jobless.
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