In Britain, young employees lack basic literacy and numeracy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57499286
In Britain, there is also a shorage of employees, and they want the (numerate, literate) over-50s back into employment:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62471260
Good luck with that, when the reality is that, all over the world, over-50s are well-nigh unemployable (sorry, “over-qualified” lol). It’s the discrimination that nobody gives a shit about: