Planning for a post-covid future of work: opportunities in a shifting labour market.
There is no doubt that Covid transformed the Future of Work and job opportunities, providing Africa an opportunity to reshape traditional concepts of work. Two years since the onset of the pandemic, many employers are facing new challenges in 2022 to restructure their workforces .
In the developed world, record numbers of people are leaving their jobs in what is now known as the Great Resignation, and employers are grappling with a plethora of new challenges. Although the Great Resignation was originally coined as an American phenomenon, its effects. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), there are about 20 million fewer jobs across its 38 member countries than before the pandemic, while 14 million of these countries’ unemployed are not looking for work. There is a need for inclusion of education innovation and training of demand driven skills... [Read more]
