A month ago, the GNN Poll asked readers to compare this year to last for hiring employees to fill out the staff at the golf businesses where they work.
The majority, or 49 per cent, said hiring has been more difficult in 2022, with another 41 per cent saying hiring is just as difficult as it was last year. Only 10 per cent said hiring was less difficult than last year.
Could a reason for that be an aging population in Canada, with many people in the workforce either already retired or about to retire, according to findings in the most recent census?
Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday that more than one in five working Canadians are nearing retirement and there are currently seven million people, or 19 per cent of the population, age 65 and over. You can read that report here.
As more Canadians reach retirement, do you expect hiring at golf businesses to get more difficult each year due to the aging population?
That’s the question in this week’s GNN Poll.
You can answer below or on the GNN home page and if you’d like to add a few thoughts on this subject, please use the Comments section below.
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The “aged” population are people who have work ethics but today’s youth are not cut from the same cloth, never mind that our Government PAYS people NOT TO WORK. So even though I voted YES as the answer, it is actually YES and NO. If the current workforce of unskilled labourers 19-35 had any self pride, or desire to learn and succeed in the 22nd Century with family, home, then perhaps the answer would be different. Today we have an entire population of young people who appear to enjoy being sponges, taking but not giving anything back to society.