What is retraining?

Retraining is given to long term employees of the organization to avoid the chances of obsolescence in terms of job requirements. Though these employees have under gone training in the past but retraining can be required due to factors like technologies changes or with a view to create a versatile work force that is capable of doing more than one jobs. The employees who are called back to work after lay off can also be given retraining. It is also used to widen the knowledge of the existing employees. Retraining is more common for the ordinary workers of the organizations as they are little equipped to foresee their needs for the job in future. They also need retraining when the tools and methods used by them are changed due to technological advances.