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What is the value of senior workers? |
I wanna invite people who are senior and still work currently to answer my question. What makes you keep working and do you think you benefit your organization with your experiences and expertise or the other way around? If senior workers bring so much good then why still many companies choose to lay off the senior ones when they have no choices? Because of experience and engaged attitude of the senior workers, organisations stand to gain from their value-added employment. However, there are times when the management has to make a judgement call to terminate their employment for a bigger picture of its organisational strategies and objectives. Their incumbency can increase operational or additional costs that can be defrayed by hiring lower cost of human resources for higher productivity. experience I keep working as I enjoy keeping active, physically and mentally. I tried staying home for several months,but I found it boring (yes, I do have hobbies) and that I was focusing on every ache - I don't have time for that when I am working. I've seen people who retire and immediately deteriorate health wise. Senior workers do benefit their employers in that, experience aside, we tend to be company loyal, still enjoy learning new things (keeps the mind sharp), and have a strong work ethic. Furthermore, as my children are grown, I no longer need to call in when I have a sick child, and I can more easily stay late if needed to see a project thru to completion. Now I am not running down the family people out there, I am just saying that from personal experience, I do not have to call in as much now that my children are grown, and I am healthy. I feel that most employers who lay off senior workers are doing it because they can hire someone younger at a lesser salary. It saves a larger chunk of the budget to eliminate a senior worker's job than a newbie's-and that's the bottom line. Understandable from a business point of view, but what a "brain drain." I am not a senior worker, but companies employ younger workers because they think they are saving money by paying a lower rate. But in fact that is not true. Unfortunately a lot of younger people (in my experience working in an office for 20 years) younger people are not dedicated, waste time, lose productivity time, text/email their friends, surf the net, talk on the phone, you name it, gossip, whinge, everything but work. Senior workers are dedicated, don't throw sickies, do their work and go home and never whinge for constant payrises. I don't understand the mentality of bosses sometimes. My husband now only employs 'older' staff as the work ethic is there and he has less problems with conflicts in the office as well. |
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