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Ageist stereotypes remain strong.
Australasian Business Intelligence, October, 2006
Oct 12, 2006 (Discrimination Alert - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Adage asked 124 employers about their views of staff aged over 45. The recruiter reports that baby boomer employees were described as hard to manage and costly. Some 84 per cent of respondents said that older staff have technology limitations, while 63 per cent said they constituted a poor cultural fit. Professor Louise Rolland, of Swinburne University, says that such prejudices affect employers' ability to react to demographic changes.
Publication Date: 11 October 2006
ADAGE
SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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