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

- [b]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.[/b]

- 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]

You really think younger folks stay around longer than five years in a job these days!??  I'm 50 something and so glad I started my own company in my 40s.  I have 75 employees, and generally speaking, those in their 30s, 40s, and 50s are great.  It's the 20-somethings that think everyone owes them the world and if they don't get it in two months, there out of here.  Not all of them - I don't like making sweeping generalizations and I have a couple of 20-somethings who I absolutely love, but there is a sense of entitlement in a lot of them.

My DH is a tech entrepreneur and can tell you ageism and sexism stories about Silicon Valley that'll make your hair curl.  It's so terrible there for people over 35.  He is based here but works out there a week or so every month.

You'd think we're progressing as a nation, but we're going backwards in a lot of ways.  [/quote]

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