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Older Workers: Demographic Trends Pose Challenges For Employers And Workers
White Papers Older workers play a key role in the labor market and their importance will only grow in the years to come. Older workers will comprise a progressively larger number of our nation's managers, supervisors, and executives.
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
Older Workers: Policies Of Other Nations To Increase Labor Force Participation
White Papers In many nations, despite their numerous differences, increasing the labor force participation of older workers is an element of the policies chosen to reform national pension systems. Encouraging workers to stay in the labor force longer can help...
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
How To Improve The Human Capital Of Older Workers Or The Sad Tale Of The Magic Bullet
White Papers Governments across much of the developed world are concerned to increase labour market activity rates and employment among older workers. The paper briefly outlines the nature of labour market disadvantage suffered by older workers, who are defined...
[July 14, 2005, 6:00]
Older Workers' Knowledge Must Be Preserved
Talkback The problem of course is that you can't attach meaningfull figures that make a difference to things like 'tribal wizdom' or other soft cost and hidden cost factors so the end result is that they're left out of the equation and thus out of the...
[August 5, 2006, 1:09]
CIOs: Avoid War Between IT's Twentysomethings And More Mature Workers
White Papers Industry pundits recently opened new skirmish lines in a generational war of words within IT, pitting older IT workers with mainframe skills against younger workers with new technology skills. They should leverage the business and operational...
[December 20, 2006, 13:28]
Employers Target Pensioners To Fill Skills Gaps
News UK businesses are actively targeting older workers in order to address recruitment difficulties and fill skills gaps, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's (CIPD) annual recruitment survey.
[June 12, 2006, 15:30]
IT Staff Given Retirement Wake-up Call
News And to compound the problem for older workers, age discrimination continues to be widespread in the IT industry, according to research by the Chartered Management Institute and the Chartered Institute of
[October 24, 2005, 14:20]
'IT Industry Is Ageist' Says Intel Chairman
News Speaking at roundtable event in conjunction with Age Concern, Intel's 66-year-old former chief executive Craig Barrett said the IT industry and government should help older workers keep pace with new technologies.
[March 9, 2006, 16:35]
Aging Baby Boomers In A New Workforce Development System
White Papers This paper presents information about the baby boom generation, its demographic and workforce characteristics, and how the generation may affect employment and training programs, in order to provide background for understanding how older workers...
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
Older, Wiser CIOs Will Be In Demand
News The firm suggests that older workers' experience and flexibility will result in a leveled playing field between older workers and Gen Xers, people born from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. I think older workers, in general, are an...
[March 8, 2002, 15:34]
Microsoft Locks Down Office Documents
News Workers with Office 2003 will be able to produce documents colleagues with older versions can't use. Gartenberg said there's a valid need for such services, especially as office workers become more mobile, and more sensitive information is stored...
[September 2, 2003, 14:25]
Microsoft Warns Of 'acute' UK Skills Shortage
Talkback As such, it is not surprising that there has been much speculation about these workers reaching retirement age and so creating an impending skills crisis. Not only will this allow firms to recruit appropriate workers in plenty of time, but also...
[July 12, 2006, 16:37]
Older, Wiser CIOs Will Be In Demand (Part Two)
News A key element in turning the hiring trend from young to older is the fact that senior workers are likely to be much more flexible. Workers over 50 have likely built a number of contacts that could pay dividends in the next few years, Fink points out.
[March 8, 2002, 15:36]
IT Employers Warned Against Ageism
News New employment laws come into force on 1 October when it will become illegal for companies to deny a job or promotion to anyone because of their age, while job adverts will not be able to call for "young" or "enthusiastic" workers or specify a...
[September 12, 2006, 16:35]
The End Of Mandatory Retirement In The US: Effects On Retirement And Implicit Contracts
White Papers It takes advantage of the unique variation in institutions affecting retirement behavior to study the change in labor force participation, job attachment and wages of older workers from the 1970s to the 1990s.
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Wealth Effects And The Consumption Of Leisure: Retirement Decisions During The Stock Market Boom Of The 1990s
White Papers This paper discusses whether the run-up in equity prices during the 1990s led older workers to retire earlier than they had previously planned. It is well accepted that households increase consumption of goods and services in response to an...
[June 22, 2005, 3:00]
The 21st-Century Workplace
White Papers So there are fewer younger workers to replace older ones. Companies today are faced with a shortage of qualified workers due, in part, to a significant demographic shift known as the "baby bust"—baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Cisco's Aironet 350 - An Enterprise-Level Wireless Security Solution
White Papers The benefits of using wireless include reduced move/add/change costs, the elimination of wire plant requirements in new workspace or older structures that pose challenges for traditional wiring, mobility of workers and data, and many others.
[October 4, 2003, 6:12]
RationalPlan Project Viewer
Downloads RationalPlan Project Viewer by Stand By Soft is a free project management software viewer, the perfect solution for anyone (from project stakeholders to team workers) to view your projects in detail. Version 3.5.1 has bug fix related to opening...
[July 16, 2008, 22:16]
RationalPlan Project Viewer
Downloads RationalPlan Project Viewer by Stand By Soft is a free project management software viewer, the perfect solution for anyone (from project stakeholders to team workers) to view your projects in detail. Version 3.5.1 is a bug fix related to opening...
[July 16, 2008, 22:01]
