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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to share as too funny. My company in Virginia has a lot of older workers in the range 52-64. We also don’t have maternity leave or paternity leave we only offer the traditional STD and use of sick days for women.

Anyhow talking HR and succession planning with a women I work with and she suggested if we offered maternity leave and paternity leave it might make company more attractive younger people like her.

I almost spit up my coffee as women is 36 has two kids and thinking of having a third. In her mind she is young? Does she not keep track her own age?

One of my prior companies we had same issue and wanted to bring average age down. Most of management around 55.

To lower average age and bring in future leaders we started a formal internship program and brought in 20 interns each around 20 years old. Some took Job upon graduating and did it 3-4 years till we got 20-30 new employees aged 21-24.

Those are young people not her. And add to madness a 38 year old guy added I am getting married soon and yes paternity leave would be a perk to attract people my age. Dude you are 38.

Then to add to final insanity both in prior conversations said they like to retire around 55. The gen x and boomers in charge are like I will work till 65-70.

Do today’s 35-40 year old think they are young?

My first real job my SVPs and EVPs were 35-40, managers 25-34 and staff was 21-24. Yet in 2025 36 is younger.

Or maybe Covid threw their clocks back 5 years.

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If the age range is 52-64 then hiring a 51 year old would bring the average ago down.  Hiring a 35 year old would bring it down even more.  Do you know how to calculate averages?

Also many people in the 30-40 range had careers stunted by various recessions and slowdowns- layoffs, etc.  I was not a manager until I was 40 and don't really think that makes me a bad person for asking for work perks, etc.  [/quote]

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