Jobs, positions no longer guaranteed
Published on: Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Kota Kinabalu: Some 60 per cent of today's jobs and professions may go extinct in 30 years' time, including some positions in the public service, said Chief Secretary to the Government, Tan Sri Ali Hamsa.He said the possibility cannot be ruled out as human evolution has proved through the period of four industrial revolutions that saw the demise of certain employment activities and birth of new ones.Malaysia has one of the highest number of people employed in the civil service.
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"We don't know how things will be by 2050 but 60 per cent of job positions may become extinct and replaced by new ones. We also don't know what the new ones will be. We can only guess," he told 1,200 State and Federal civil servants during the National Transformation 2050 (TN50) dialogue session held at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Tuesday.Ali said bearing such possibility in mind, civil servants must be able to envision the public service for the future in order to be relevant when the time comes."What kind of public service we want in 2050? This is why we're here today. We want to hear your aspirations," he said.The dialogue was the second after one held in May in Putrajaya except this time it involved all categories in the State and Federal civil service in Sabah.
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Ali and State Secretary Tan Sri Sukarti Wakiman moderated the session that saw active participation from the civil servants.Among the key concerns highlighted by the participants were on sustainable development, security, education, house ownership, poverty, regional disparity, resilience to natural disaster and combating cyber and commercial crimes in Sabah.
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Integrity of civil servants and zero corruption in civil service were also put up on the list as among their top aspirations.He noted that many civil servants during the dialogue have put environmental sustainability also on top of their wish list for the future of Sabah while acknowledging the committed efforts taken by the current State leadership on the agenda. Ali said all their inputs will be sent to a government agency to be clustered accordingly and announced by the government later.TN50 is an initiative to plan for the future of Malaysia in the period 2020 to 2050 as the country strives to be amongst the top countries in the world in economic development, citizen well-being and innovation.The process involves engaging all levels of the society, particularly youths, to gather their views and aspirations of how they would like to see the country and Sabah in particular by 2050.Previous public engagements by the government in formulating policies to chart its future were Wawasan 2020 (1991-2020) and New Economic Policy (1971-1990).Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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