Adecco Chief Calls for Life-Long Learning to Dodge Jobs ‘Time Bomb’

Adecco Chief Calls for Life-Long Learning to Dodge Jobs ‘Time Bomb’
CEO Alain Dehaze of Swiss Adecco Group is seen during an interview with Reuters in Zurich, Switzerland on Oct. 30, 2018. Picture taken October 30, 2018. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
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ZURICH—Companies should set up portable accounts to pay for life-long learning to help workers upgrade their skills and remain employable as robots take over more jobs, Adecco Group Chief Executive Alain Dehaze said.

As increasing automation eliminates many roles, government and the private sector should work together to fill skills gaps, while workers must become more flexible, the head of the world’s largest staffing services company told Reuters in an interview.