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 Nearly four million people in the UK feel that they have been discriminated against because of their age, with workers as young as 35 falling victim to age discrimination. But ageing populations across the developed world means that in the not too distant future there will be too few workers to pay the pensions of older people. Policymakers have woken to the fact that we need to have a greater number of middle aged and older people employed. But sadly, most employers have not; in the UK alone, official figures estimate that age discrimination in the workplace is costing the economy £31bn a year. USEFUL LINKS |
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Essential ReadingEmployers in denial over aging workforce
Despite many U.S. businesses already experiencing the effects of an aging workforce, a significant proportion of have failed to put any plans in place to deal with the problem.
Age bias undergoing its own phased retirement
Just how prevalent is ageism in U.S. organisations? The overwhelming majority of Americans believe that it's still a problem, but demographic realities mean that it could be undergoing its own phased retirement.
What happens when the 'baby boom' bubble bursts?
Will the retirement of the 'baby boom' generation lead to a labour shortage in the U.S. or will there instead be a skills shortage and increased unemployment as organisations offshore jobs in search of cheaper skilled workers?
Ageing workforce changing the way managers plan their strategy
As the workforce grows older, companies are spending more time and effort analysing and forecasting the talent they have or need to acquire in order to execute their business strategy.
Mandatory retirement opposed worldwide
For many people in the developed world, traditional retirement is a thing of the past. A new global survey suggests that eight out of 10 want to scrap mandatory retirement while just 14 per cent equate financial independence with old age.
Attitudes to retirement transcend age
A worker's age is irrelevant when it comes to second-guessing when they are likely to want to retire or how long they will keep working, a British survey has revealed.
Capitalizing on generational differences
This week is National Older Worker Week in America, and in keeping with one of my mantras, "Value the Differences, Adapt to the Differences," I thought it a good idea to look at how to capitalize on generational differences.
Legislation 'not the answer to ageism'
Legislation on its own will not solve the problem of age discrimination in Britain's workplaces because most people simply don't take it as seriously as they do prejudice based on race and religion.
Latest on AgeismBaby-boomer departures a threat to competitivenessThe departure of the baby-boomer generation into retirement poses a grave threat to the competitiveness of the US economy.
Why it doesn't pay to pigeonhole Gen YFar from being a bunch of self-centred eco-warriors, Gen Y staff can often make great team players, with half even intending to stick with their employer for at least the next five years.
The Gen Y headacheIt's often assumed one of the pluses about Generation Y employees is that they're good at adapting to change. Not so, says new research – and they're also flighty, badly organised, poor at planning and less productive.
Generation Y the least engagedThe knives are out again for Generation Y as a new survey finds that in almost all parts of the world, employees born since 1980 are the least engaged members of the workplace.
Phased retirement staves off talent exodusFaced with the mass exodus of baby-boomers, American employers are increasingly turning to phased retirement programs to keep workers on board for as long as possible.
Guard your hiveYour company has important resources that are worth protecting. They're called experienced workers. If this sector of your workforce flies out the door tomorrow, their wisdom – and that of others - will follow
The aging workforce – a disappearing asset?Organisations throughout the developed world face two key challenges. How do they keep their best, most experienced and knowledgeable people? And how can they make better use of those who are considering retirement?
Life-long earningThe ability to work and earn should be a lifelong right – and it is a demographic reality that employees, governments and employers are just going to have to get their heads around.
Age is the new battlegroundAge is rapidly becoming Britain's main workplace discrimination battleground, with the number of age-related grievances rising sharply.
Ageism endemic in British workplacesOne year after the introduction of legislation intended to outlaw age discrimination in British workplaces, ageism appears to be as deep-rooted as ever.
New metaphors for oldThe common conception that once human beings reach a certain point on the crest of life's span it will be downhill all the rest of the way, is just plain wrong.
Ageing workforce will challenge employersWith three-quarters of employees anticipating working beyond 65, the number of Britons working past retirement age is expected to treble by 2017, posing big challenges for employers.
Retiring baby-boomers leave managers at a lossAmerica's employers are already starting to feel the effects of their ageing workforce as their sixty-somethings retire, not least in an exodus of highly experienced senior and middle management.
Older, fitter, indispensableFar from being a drain on society, older people across the world are making huge contributors to the economic and cultural wellbeing of their nations, with more than one in 10 now working into their 70s.
Boomer or slacker, we're all the sameConventional wisdom has it that generational differences between boomers, slackers and Generation Ys are tearing workplaces apart. But according to a new book, this gulf in values between older and younger people is a myth.
Wandering into a demographic disasterThe majority of employers in developed economies are ignoring all the evidence of growing talent shortages with a mere one in seven having any strategies in place to recruit older workers.
Pushed out by younger colleaguesBrian is 55 and has been working with the same organisation for 15 years. But with the arrival of a younger generation of talent, he fears that he could be sidelined out.
Pushed out by younger colleaguesBrian is 55 and has been working with the same organisation for 15 years. But with the arrival of a younger generation of talent, he fears that he could be sidelined out.
US employers brace for flood of age-related lawsuitsAmerica's rapidly-ageing workforce is going to lead to a dramatic increase in expensive age-related law suits, employment lawyers have warned.
Older workers more focused than the youngThe idea that older workers spend their days thinking about their retirement rather than the job in hand is nonsense. In fact it is younger workers who are more likely to be disengaged from the workplace.
Over-60s fear being unfit for workEurope is becoming increasingly reliant on an older workforce, but unless managerial attitudes change significantly, many workers believe they will not physically be able to do their jobs beyond the age of 60.
Ageism legislation fails to change attitudesNew legislation recently introduced in Britain to outlaw age discrimination may have encourage employers to change their policies, but it has done little to change mindsets or alter attitudes towards either older or younger workers.
Turning silver into goldYou've got to feel sorry for the youth of today, because youth is their only competitive advantage - and it's a declining asset from the moment they start work.
Age laws could spell the end of workplace health insuranceIn their haste to stamp out anything that might hint at age discrimination in Britain's workplaces, politicians could well have sounded the death-knell for employer-funded private health insurance.
Ageism rife across EuropeAlmost half of workers across Europe believe their workplaces discriminate against older workers, a new survey has suggested, with Spanish and German employers the worst culprits.
HR managers wary of older workforceDespite imminent new age discrimination legislation, two thirds of Britain's HR managers still believe that people should retire at 65 years because they are sicker, slower and more expensive than their younger colleagues,
Britons in the dark on age legislationDespite extensive publicity and dire predictions that a tidal wave of age-relegated litigation is about to break over the country's employers, half of Britons are still unaware that age discrimination will become illegal on the 1 October.
Helping the uninitiatedPeople aren't a waste of space just because they happen to be young – any more than they are because they are old. Which is why initiates must be allowed the chance to get things wrong without having their mistakes promoted into major offences.
On having the time of our livesEven though half the population of Western Europe remains fit and active for twenty-five years or more beyond retirement age, the belief that these years will be spent "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything" is still commonplace.
Bosses dig their heels in over older workersSeven out of 10 bosses in the UK say they see no benefit in employing older workers, while a charity has warned that older workers are being shown the door in a rush to avoid next month's anti-discrimination laws
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