Companies operating in the EU should recruit more "mature workers" and retain existing ones as the EU population is set to become older, argues an IBM Business Consulting Services study.
"Firms need to take a proactive approach to address demographic changes", under pain of damaging their competitiveness by losing expertise and incurring higher recruiting and training costs for newcomers, warns the study.
IBM's 2005 Human Capital Management Report forecasts that by 2025, the numb...
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