Work It Podcast: How older workers can add value to their companies
An ageing workforce is taking shape so how can companies tap on their mature workers in a meaningful way?
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Looking for a job or trying to nail it at your current one? Host Tiffany Ang and career counsellor Gerald Tan help navigate your important - and sometimes thorny - work life questions.
With retirement and re-employment ages set to be raised, the truth is that there will be more mature workers in our workforce. What are some unique challenges senior workers face and how can companies help them feel more valued?
Our guest this week is Professor Yow Wei Quin, head of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Jump to these key moments:
- 3:25 Psychology of ageing in the workplace
- 6:58 Challenges that older workers face
- 11:03 How can companies tap into senior workers?
- 14:03 Should mentorship be structured or organic?
- 17:47 Benefits of hiring mature workers
- 19:35 AMA: Out of office but still at work?
(Mature workers) have been used to be able to do things fast ... so when we become older, some of these abilities decline and it could lead to some self-confidence issues.
From the company's perspective, because the older workers have a very rich experience ... we can encourage (them) to take on a (mentoring) role ... to equip (them) with the confidence and skills to guide the younger people.
This podcast episode is in partnership with the inaugural Ideas Festival. You can find out more at www.ideasfestival.edu.sg
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