Two researchers make the case for hiring older professionals

2019-09-27T07:00:00-04:00

In today's workplace, there has been a lot of mention of the many biases present with regards to the race, gender, and culture of employees and coworkers. One of the biggest biases of all, according to researcher Josh Bersin and professor of psychology Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, is age. "...If you are older, you are likely to be considered less capable, less able to adapt, or less willing to roll up your sleeves and do something new than your younger peers," writes the pair.

It's a dangerous bias that limits the potential of many organizations and feeds into the growing issue of lingering job vacancies in the U.S. today. "This is largely a result of baby boomers reaching retirement at a rate faster than millennials are able to step into their place," explain the two researchers. They argue that the retirement industry has propagated the myth that "people over the age of 65 should retire." They reference research that showed that "people who stop working and retire often suffer from d...

Better technology does not equal better architecture

2013-01-23T18:05:00-05:00

How can we let geriatrics design the future? There is a creeping conservatism in old age, Rogers and Piano’s Pompidou was genuinely revolutionary, but that was in 1977, ever since then they've been riffing off the same ideas, with decreasing vitality...They are past retirement age and yet they march on, pulling out the same ideas over and over again, while the planet fawns obsequiously at their feet.

As part of Vice Future Week, Eddie Blake pens a critique of the current geriatric state of architecture. He believes that we must move beyond the tired designs of the past and embrace a new emerging architecture. The future of architecture is more co-operative, varied, often temporary and emphasizes "the evolution of a building, rather than how it looks as a finished piece".

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Two researchers make the case for hiring older professionals

Better technology does not equal better architecture