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tbrownawtoday at 4:29 AM1 replyview on HN

This seems to be arguing that they should more than showing that they increasingly are.

Also the bit about companies with more older workers performing better, and the bit about older people often losing jobs due to layoffs, sound like they could also fit together as high firm performance permitting long tenure rather than having to show only that experienced employees cause higher firm performance (although of course the examples demonstrate the latter via other means, so it can't be that it doesn't happen at all).


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mcmcmctoday at 4:57 AM

Definitely smells like survivorship bias.

The title is clickbait. This reads more like marketing copy for the author’s consulting firm than any serious research.

They “help forward-thinking leaders and organisations see aging not as decline, but as a driver of innovation, resilience, and growth.”

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