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Hang on to the boomers?
Posted by
Douglas Eisenhart
at 10:11 AM
A lot of ink and pixels have been spilled on the subject of the impending retirement of Baby Boomers. There could be a mass migration out of the organizations that boomers have helped to build and maintain over all these years, thereby resulting in a net talent shortage and experience drain that could cripple the organizations they leave behind.
That's the worst-case scenario, anyway. Well, here is a possible solution to the problem: keep some of the boomers on board: An expected wave of baby-boomer retirements has some managers fretting about worker shortages. But experts say many firms are overlooking a big supply of potential employees -- older workers who can be wooed to continue working.
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Employers who ignore older workers now will suffer as boomers near retirement age, says Melanie Cosgrove Holmes, a vice president at Manpower. By 2012, nearly one in three U.S. workers will be over 50, according to AARP, a group for people age 50 and older. "Progressive companies that are looking ahead...are the ones that are going to be most successful," Ms. Holmes says. Read the full piece from CareerJournal.
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