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Tempting back older workers means ditching business as usual
Stereotypes about curmudgeons have to go, along with dreary jobs and the expectation of a work-free retirement
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A 2021 survey found employers in Brazil, India, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Britain and the US saying they prefer staff under 45.
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Camilla Cavendish
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“Your country needs you,” pleads British Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt to the over-50s, echoing the concerns of United States Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell about the “excess retirements” which have drained America of two million workers.
Policymakers remain perplexed by the Great Resignation,
