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Workers seek to counter recession with second skill

A vast majority of Taiwan's white-collar workers agreed that cultivating a second skill is the best way to counter an economic recession, a recent survey has found.

According to the results of the survey released yesterday by a local Web site -- www.104.com.tw -- 93.8 percent of the people polled believed that having a second skill is the best way to tackle economic sluggishness in the workplace.

The survey also discovered that 97.8 percent of senior workers with at least 10 years of annuity agreed to the concept out of the fear of being eliminated in the workplace by younger workers.

However, the survey also pointed out that only 29.9 percent of Taiwan's white-collar workers are cultivating a second skill, with those aged between 20 and 29 being the most active in doing so -- mainly learning a computer language.

Meanwhile, nearly 15,000 workers have been hired as temporary workers under a government emergency employment plan aimed at reconstructing areas damaged by recent typhoons, sources with the Employment and Vocational Training Administration (EVTA) said yesterday.
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