As has been made evident from the Covid-19 crisis, there are entire sectors and work functions that can be made unsustainable or irrelevant, pointed out Gillian Koh, Institute of Policy Studies' deputy director (research) and senior research fellow in its governance and economy department.
"Time will be needed for workers to retrain and to adapt to work in new sectors, so this can take months or a year or so," she said. "It has to be sustainable but there has to be some spur to bounce back from being made redundant."
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