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What, me? Retire? Just because I’m 80?
Ageism is still rife in the workplace, assuming older employees can hang onto a job at all. This is frustrating considering that, despite the stereotypes, Baby Boomers are by no means uniformly loaded.
Pilita ClarkColumnistLinkedIn is normally a placid oasis in the seething broth of social media chatter. But it lit up the other week when one of its users posted a chart showing the different stages of working life that had appeared in the career advice section of the Indeed.com job listing site.
The chart claimed that, from the age of 21 to 25, you were in the “exploration” stage. By 45 to 55 you were “late career”. And once you reached the 55-to-65 mark you had hit “decline”.
Financial Times
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