Employing Older People Essay
This IELTS
employing older people essay tackles the issue of whether it it
better for employers to hire younger staff rather than those who are older.
It has been claimed that workers over 50 are not responsive to rapidly
changing ideas in the modern workplace and that for this reason
younger workers are to be preferred.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
This type of topic arises in IELTS writing now again. This is about
employing people over 50. Don't mix it up
with essays that ask whether
people should be forced to retire at a certain age.
Some of the arguments may be the same i.e. the advantages of someone
working when they are older, but the question is different.
Model Answer
It has been claimed that workers over 50 are not responsive to rapidly
changing ideas in the modern workplace and that for this reason younger
workers are to be preferred.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Some people believe that due to the rapid changes occurring in modern work
places, it is better to employ younger than older people. I do not believe that
this is the case.
One argument in support of younger employees is that older employees
could be more set in their ways and potentially against any change. To an
extent
this may be true, but there are many flexible and intelligent workers
over 50, while there are inflexible and narrow-minded younger ones.
Attitude towards change is a result not of age but of personality type.
That said, physical changes occurring with age could mean certain jobs are
more suited to a younger person. For instance,
psychologists seem to be in
agreement that memory declines with age for people not remaining mentally
active. In high-tech industries such as computer programming, where it is so
important to be able to
work with so much information, numbers and
calculations, being younger may be an advantage.
However, older workers have a wide range of other positive attributes that
they can bring to their working environment. Generally, they have more
work experience than those who are younger.
In addition, as can be seen
with the trend of many department stores in the UK to take on older people,
they are seen to be more reliable and respectful. These are important in any
kind of working environment.
In
conclusion, therefore, there is not the evidence to support employing
young people as opposed to those over 50. It would seem that a mix of the
best qualities of old and young is preferential
in order to ensure the most
productive environment evolves.
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