There may be an increase in the number of older workers who are looking to retrain in the future to gain new employee skills, it has been suggested.

As people work for longer in the future, it is expected that more and more people will seek to start a new career later in life.

“Employers are going to be faced with many more people in their 50s who are … looking to retrain and have a whole new career that might have to last them 20 years.”