We know when we're looking at the care economy that there is a lower ability for automation. The care economy is really about people caring. Whether that's health care or education, from young people to adults and to the end of our lives, we need care work. Automation isn't going to solve that. That's going to be about reducing costs and not increasing the care that people need.
When we look at this mismatch of jobs and say there are vacancies and nobody is taking them, we need to do a deeper dive into that, because you're right. Some of them don't have requirements of maybe grade 12. However, many of them are in skilled work and we're not recognizing that. By not recognizing the skill that people need, it means we don't have the wages to match that and we don't have the benefits, so people aren't staying.
We know there's a high turnaround in care work, whether you talk to child care providers or within health care or long-term care homes that support people. I think that turnaround is because of the quality of the jobs and the quality or the value we put on that work. That is primarily women. We need to start realizing how important care work is to our society, because no work can happen without care work existing. Therefore, that value needs to be there.
When people are paid well, are treated well and have access to their rights in their job, they're more likely to stay. As a retention program, investing in the people who work in this industry and this sector is the best thing we can do.