She said there were multiple reasons why people may not return to work, including childcare costs.<\/p>\n
“For older workers, it’s more around them often wanting flexibility that employers are either unwilling or unable to provide,” she added.<\/p>\n
“One of the other barriers, for people who have maybe been out of work, even for as little as 12 months, is feeling left behind by technology and AI.”<\/p>\n
Ms Yildrim said the return of these workers could have “significant benefits” for businesses and the economy.<\/p>\n
“We’re talking an additional 7,500-plus workers across Jersey and Guernsey – translating into GVA value of \u00a3700m.”<\/p>\n
Ms Yildirim said an “open-minded approach” was needed by employers to source local talent.<\/p>\n
“For the community as a whole, we’ve got to call out ageism and tackle some of the stereotypes,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said there were multiple reasons why people may not return to work, including childcare costs. “For older…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-17520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}