Expertise of older workers can prove beneficial

When I worked for Nissan Motor Co, I was sent to Thailand on a number of occasions and ended up living there for a total of 10 years. Some of the Japanese employees who worked at the local office where I was stationed and in companies that I established there returned to Thailand after they retired from the Japanese parent company.

Currently, 10 of them are working there, making use of their technological and business skills, knowledge, experience and personal connections they acquired and developed during their earlier assignments in Thailand.

They are working at local factories of Japanese parts makers and local branches of Japanese trading companies. One works at the Bangkok office of a Malaysian auto assembly company. They are engaged in management, marketing, procurement of parts and materials and other activities.