Category: Employment

The need to retain and recruit the talents of older workers has never received so much coverage. But we need more than headlines and promises to fix the systemic issues preventing this from happening, argues Tim Whitaker of Wise Age.

Regional strategies, an improved understanding of the needs and circumstances of older workers and an end to the pernicious effects of ageism… just some of what is needed if older people are to play a full part in the workplace. By AAA members Wise Age.

Kim Chaplain says older workers can play a key role in growing the economy and filling in labour and skills shortages… but too many are leaving the workforce when they still have so much to offer.

Appropriately for the festive season, writes Tony Watts OBE, the media recently has been well and truly stuffed with coverage of the Government’s plans to encourage workers to delay their retirement and/or actually “unretire”.

Paul Gutherson of NDTi asks: what if we stopped thinking in terms of “work” and “retirement” or in terms of “work” and “leisure”, of “jobs” and “hobbies” and reframed the narrative being imposed upon us?

Paul Gutherson of NDTi has been doing a little bit of digging around to try and get underneath the headlines screaming at us that there are approximately 1.3 million unfilled job vacancies… and that this is all down to people over the age of 50 rushing to retire. Get the “economically inactive over 50s” back…

By Steve Butler, CEO at Punter Southall Aspire The findings from a YouGov poll on age discrimination in the workplace, commissioned by the Centre for Ageing Better, revealed that two-fifths of more than 1,100 employees over the age of 50 think their age would put them at a disadvantage when applying for a job, and…