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Age Lessons
Mature Workers Share Labor Day Worries: Age Lessons Study Reveals Workplace 3Rs--Redundancy, Relevance, Resentment
September 5th, 2008
Let them do work! That's the Labor Day anthem for mature workers according to a newly-released study by Age Lessons, a Chicago-based intergenerational consulting firm, that identified the workplace "3 Rs" that keep Baby Boomer employees up at night--fear of redundancy (layoffs, firings), relevance (keeping skills current) and resentment from younger associates. The Age Lessons study, comprising 50 depth phone interviews with workers age 50+, explored issues surfaced in the firm's national Ageism: Managing on the Bias research completed with Harris Interactive. Laurel Kennedy, president of Age Lessons, summarized key findings, "Older workers believe...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-09-05)
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