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We are experts at office banter, one-on-one communication and talking to actual humans on the phone. And we can do our jobs using a fraction of the brain power required by our greener counterparts.
When I turned 50, I encountered some corporate turnips whose mission was to humiliate me for being biologically a few years older than them. In a crowded lift one day, a colleague I’ll call “Steve” asked if I had considered Botox.
He often steered office chat around to who was the oldest , at which point I’d excuse myself and place an online order for a voodoo doll with extra large pins. Thanks to Steve and others, I imposed a total social media ban on any birthday posts. And I kept things vague when people asked how old my kids were . Productivity will continue to languish if employers write off older employers as inflexible, resistant to change and difficult to manage. In fact, Gen Xers have lived through transformative technological change.
Their frank and unfiltered feedback is a strength in environments where it is “safe to speak up”, but no-one really does.older workers are “likely to face growing barriers to gaining and staying in work”. They argue the burden should be placed on organisations rather than employees to address discrimination and check for bias in automated tools. -style discrimination against their own in interviews.
As former United States secretary of state Madeleine Albright once declared: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women. ” If another saying, “culture eats strategy for breakfast” is true, then I would strongly recommend hiring 50-plus women to improve the office vibe, inject some wisdom and encourage more diversity into the workplace.
But at the end of the work day, those of us in our sixth decade are mere embryos on a galactic scale. The difference between 25 and 55 is negligible when compared to planet Earth’s 6 billion years in the cosmos. If only AI and recruiters understood this.is a former journalist and author of Stoic At Work: Ancient wisdom to make your job a bit less annoying, published by Murdoch Books
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