Very often, when I walked down my flats to nearby hawker centre or coffeeshop or to our playground foyer area, I see many old and middle age residents hanging around as they are either retired or became early retirees after being retrenched.
Many of these middle age group has stopped looking for a job and just living a pretty frugal life. I have spoken to a few of them and it seems some has resigned to the fate that they will not get a proper job due to mismatch in skillset and some wants a more relax life.
It makes me wonder if our Community Clubs or Residents Committee can do more to help this group of experienced middle age resources that we have in Singapore.
Many of them are not looking at career progression or advancement but rather a easier and slower pace of work/life. I stay around Farrer Park and always wonder if we could match the jobs available nearby, eg citysquare mall during their peak hour might need some service staff for their F&B or retail shops which might be able to offer flexible working hour.
Currently, many of these jobs are going out to foreign workers thus taxing our infrastructure and by shortening the working hour to 4 hour slot, with meals included, it will be a very attractive proposition to encourage many retirees to go back to work as they will have a chance to get out of the house, convenient travel since it is within the same estate and able to interact more with other people which can help avoid illnesses.
Also, these matching can also be extended to other industries within the estate like part time accountants, admin staff and others. Certain industries that are labour intensive can also offer work to these group of retirees through the community clubs so these retirees can gather together and work together.
With more and more young entrepreneurs working from home, they can also offer part time flexi work hours to their residents I sit in my estate resident committee as observer and hope to bring up these ideas and implement it in our estate and hopefully other estates can start doing this too.
With more and more young entrepreneurs working from home, they can also offer part time flexi work hours to their residents I sit in my estate resident committee as observer and hope to bring up these ideas and implement it in our estate and hopefully other estates can start doing this too.
With proper matching of jobs and industries within the same estate, it will help to keep Singapore into a carlite society too.
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