SINGAPORE: Amid Singapore’s push for more seniors to remain in employment, employers have found that the lack of flexible work options as well as the know-how to train seniors for flexible roles is challenging, Senior Minister of State for Manpower Koh Poh Koon said on Thursday (Apr 23).
To that end, there is a need for more companies to play an “active role” in finding innovative ways to help their older staff remain employed, he said.
“We hope that companies who are prepared to do so will show the way and allow us to … share with more companies,” said Dr Koh. “Through our policy support to companies’ innovation from the ground up, I think we can scale this in a wider way.”
Dr Koh, who co-chairs a tripartite workgroup aimed at enabling more seniors to keep working if they want to, was speaking to the media during a tour of bus operator Tower Transit’s facilities at Bulim Bus Depot.
During the visit, Dr Koh and other members from the workgroup were introduced to various trials by Tower Transit, such as a pilot of three career pathways for bus captains above 60 to take on less physically demanding tasks while retaining their operational experience and abilities to make safety-related judgment calls.
