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Friday Nov 09 2007

I am perplexed by the fact that companies have been laying off older workers for years as part of various downsizing projects. I understand the drive to cut costs. Under normal demographic conditions, laying off older workers would even make some sense from a strictly financial point of view, since they generally command higher salaries than younger workers. The fact is, however, that those same companies are moaning about shortages of qualified people and the difficulties they’re having in recruiting really good people. They often resort to paying more for younger workers or having to hire older workers back as “consultants” at even higher rates of pay than they would receive had they stayed on the payroll. Moreover, aside from this financial shell game, corporations are often blind to their real costs in terms of what they lose when they lose their mature workforce.[Read More]

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