I read a letter today in the Philippine Star where a writer asked Socorro Ramos of National Bookstore, if companies were biased against older people. I admit I had that bias before so everyone in my company was below 23 years old at the time of their hiring. All that has changed now.
We just recently opened a division where almost all the employees are older - in their 40s actually. And it has been working fine now for the past three weeks. Their work comes on time and they're really eager to do their tasks. Also, their work is more professional and more mature. That thing cannot be faked since you'd have to have experience and maturity to sound like that.
So, it's a good thing to have older people around. Of course, it has to fit perfectly with what your company needs - and what we needed fit perfectly with what they could offer.
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