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[quote=Anonymous]Some long-heard concerns and biases with older hires:

- will be retiring sooner (i.e., if we hire someone who is, say, 57, they realistically may be planning to retire within 5 years.  If we only get authority and budget to fill a slot intermittently, the HR office may rather hire the younger person.

- getting along with peers; working well together on teams; dealing with a manager who may be 10 or more years younger.  The average age of employees in an industry and even at certain companies is public info -- better odds at overcoming this bias in companies with an older workforce.

- set in their ways.  E.g., uncomfortable with tech changes; dislike using IT resources or new resources, even if it would increase efficiency.

- not likely to be as hard-working.  Is that 58 year old going to work until 2am or come in on the weekend to work on an urgent project with the team?  (Of course, some will say the 58-year old is perhaps more willing to put in the extra hours than the millennial, and others will say the 58-year old has the benefit of experience and so can be more efficient.)

Where I work in the legal field, there are plenty of older employees (attorneys) in their 50s and early 60s (some even older too).  Though there are exceptions, by and large, they are the best, most respected employees -- they have far more experience and expertise than the younger set.[/quote]

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