Title: Aging workforce challenges: Trends, Statistics and Impact
Headings: Aging Workforce Challenges: Trends, Statistics and Impact
Aging Workforce Challenges: Trends, Statistics and Impact
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What is the aging workforce?
5 Aging Workforce Challenges and Their Solutions
1. Bias
2. Absenteeism
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3. Postpone retirement
4. Succession
5. Attract & retain younger employees
The Impact of the Aging Workforce
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Content: Now, how to beat these misconceptions? Germany’s Daimler – the company who owns Mercedes – has taken it upon themselves to challenge stereotypes about aging by developing an exhibition. Visitors of the exhibition can either enter the exhibition through a ‘young’ or an ‘old door’. Once inside, they can take tests to measure things like their balance, their ability to work in a team and their memory. The Reuters correspondent who wrote an article about Daimler’s initiative, real age 45, turned out to have a biological age of 36 and 119 years of life experience. A pretty cool way to smash bias about older workers, right? Young or old, which door would you choose? 2. Absenteeism
Bias or not, absenteeism is an aging workforce trend. Whether it is because their health isn’t as good as it once used to be or because they have indeed lost their motivation doesn’t matter, it still costs the company money.