Continued support a necessity

Right workforce: SMEs should continue to invest in and reskill their workforce,

THE threat of the third wave has intensified as fresh restrictions are enforced to curb the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the country. With business barely picking up from the first round of the movement control order (MCO), there is a need for sustained support for SMEs to ensure that they make it out of the pandemic still standing.

Already, Sunway University professor of economics Yeah Kim Leng sees increased risk of job losses and business closures, particularly among SMEs that have yet to emerge from the slums of the second wave of the pandemic.