It is not wise for an industry to replace its experienced but old workers with new and young yet inexperienced individuals. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

With technology innovation and automation in various sectors, organisations are left with no alternative but to replace experienced employees with fresh graduates.

However

, many argue that the employer should enhance skills of present

staff

, rather than laying off.

Therefore

, In my opinion, Industries should not replace qualified by inexperienced workers.  On one hand, every

job

requires desired skill and qualification. Because, most of the experienced employees have spent a good number of hours in learning and development of products,

thus

, they better understand the pros and cons of the

job

. Whereas, in some cases, an

employee

needs to upgrade his knowledge, I.e., learning new software or new machinery manuals.

For instance

, in my organisation, the account team was sent on a four week training program to learn SAP in order to work swiftly.

Thus

, our company did not hire new people but trained the existing ones.

On the other hand

, recruiting inexperienced individuals over current workforce, not only impacts financially but affects

employee

productivity. By appointment of new

staff

over experienced

staff

, the sense of

job

security rises within the company, which can result in poor

employee

performance and low morale.

Moreover

, the companies who replace its

staff

often tend to spend more rehiring new employees and are time consuming.

Therefore

, younger employees are no bargain, when it comes to replacing existing. In conclusion, I feel, the organisations should focus more on building

employee

skills.

Firstly

, they are easy to train and,

Secondly

, they know their

job

well and understand the company’s culture well. Whereas, young and fresh graduates, costs more to the company and affects

employee

morale.