Experienced Workers Program: Advantages of Hiring

• Accident and attendance records are better for older workers than for younger workers. Mature workers have a strong sense of work ethic. They are dependable and responsible, and tend to move from job to job less frequently than younger employees.

• For most occupations, productivity levels remain stable or even increase with age. Moreover, additional factors (other than physical stamina and dexterity) enter into productivity, such as work habits, motivation and job concentration.

• Adaptability has proven to be unrelated to age. In addition, mature workers are better problem solvers and have the experience to be creative. They stick with a problem until they solve it.

• Older workers learn just as well as younger ones. In fact, since mature workers tend to stay with companies longer than their younger counterparts do, training dollars spent on older workers are usually a better investment.

• Studies have shown that older workers are excellent at taking direction and tend to work well with their supervisors and co-workers, no matter what their age. In fact, mature workers have superior communication skills and a greater ability to solve interpersonal problems than their younger counterparts.

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This Employment Ontario project is funded in part by the Government of Canada