A new study has challenged commonly-held age-related stereotypes about workers at different stages of their careers.
The idea that if you are young, you must be ambitious and more employable whereas older workers are winding down and looking towards retirement, may not be the case. These are the findings in a ground breaking report by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott published in the Harvard Business Review.
Gratton and Scott, both professors at the Harvard Business School, surveyed 10,000 people aged 24 to 80 from all over the world. They found that more than half of older workers are investing in new skills to keep themselves relevant in the workplace, are excited about their jobs, work harder to keep fit and are by no means tired and winding down towards the end of their careers.
"The six assumptions we have explored here are probably just aspects of a much bigger tapestry of assumptions about the young and old that are spurious, wrong, even damaging," the pair write.
"When corporations believe that older workers invest less in their knowledge, are less excited by their work and exploring their world, and are on a path to physical decline and exhaustion, they make the wrong decisions about who to select, promote and develop, and who to retire."
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