EditorialsBy Matt Bud, Chairman, The FENG

Stopping the aging process

From our daily member newsletter on November 24, 2019

The Wall Street Journal recently had an article about the steps people are taking these days at work to conceal their age. I understand where this comes from. Ageism, as with all forms of prejudice, comes from ignorance. Across all of the ways of earning a living, it is true that SOME workers who are older are just not cost effective in the work they can do. Paying a lot more for a ditch digger who is well experienced may not make a whole lot of sense. When you look at work content and how experience plays into that is key to deciding whether or not hiring a “well experienced” person makes sense. There is, of course, the mean spirited [ Read more… ]

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