Retirement age: Grey matters

Old-fashioned age discrimination is, it seems, finally being wafted out of the workplace on a current of legislation and a greying population. According to Managing an ageing workforce , a research report by the CIPD and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), 93 per cent of the managers who responded to a questionnaire agreed that the knowledge and skills of older workers were very valuable. Most said they had removed age from application forms and 91 per cent offer training regardless of age. As the report says: “The evidence is that negative stereotypes about the abilities of older people are gradually being eliminated over time.”