Experience Matters – Senior Workers get More Done

OLDER EMPLOYEES ARE MORE PRODUCTIVE:

Older staff are more productive than their younger colleagues, according to researchers. Older workers have greater experience, are good at working in teams, and have success at coping when things go wrong. The researchers say: "While older workers make more errors, perhaps due to declining physical attributes, they hardly make any severe errors, perhaps due to more experience." The researchers also found that a higher proportion of women in the workforce is bad for productivity in young teams and good in old teams. They say women make fewer errors, but young male workers get distracted, and are likely to make more errors, if women are in the team.