As we lead longer and healthier lives, the reality for many of us is that we will need to, or indeed want to, work longer than previous generations. However, despite this, ageism in the workplace continues to hold people, and businesses back.
Ageism at work largely ignores the many positive attributes mature-age colleagues bring to the workforce. Knowledge, expertise, experience and loyalty are just some of these qualities that companies are missing out on, by continuing to hold bias against older applicants.
In this month’s update, I want to give advice to business leaders on tackling ageism in the workplace and explain why we must address the issue going forward.
At Hays, we recently released a report under our Hays Helps programme. The programme has been established to focus and align all of Hays’ global volunteering and fund-raising activities towards the aim of ensuring we are supporting the communities and societies we serve. We do this by both lifting the employability of people who may not have the same opportunities as others, and protecting the environments where we are based, in order to create a more sustainable future world of work.
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