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It is not only a politically correct expression for workers in the workplace not to be discriminated against in the workplace because of their age. It is also a reality that we need to face together.
Would you like to try it?
It is not only a politically correct expression for workers in the workplace not to be discriminated against in the workplace because of their age. It is also a reality that we need to face together.
At the beginning of 2019, the Chinese version of “Harvard Business Review” used to be titled “Dangerous Age Discrimination” and had a cover story. Paul Irwin, director of the Center for Aging Futures at the Milken Institute, said in the article:
“The demographic change is happening. It is estimated that by 2050, there will be more than 2 billion people over the age of 60, more than the number of children under the age of 5. Regardless of the reasons for this drastic change, the aging workforce Has arrived. The future employment population will face the situation of five generations in the same community.
Japan, which is suffering from serious aging, has already begun to implement “live to old, work to old”. In September 2018, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an interview with the media that he will be committed to building a “lifetime non-retirement” and “lifetime active” society, and discusses that the employment age will continue to increase to 65 years and above.
China faces similar problems. Economist Ren Zeping has cited data indicating that the peak of the third round of baby booms in China began in 1987 and began to decline rapidly after 1997. He cited the 2010 census data: the post-80s, post-90s, and post-00s populations were 219 million, 188 million, and 147 million, respectively. The post-90s were about 31 million fewer than the post-80s and about 41 million later. Such a massive shrinkage of the tens of millions of young people will cause huge problems.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the number of employed people nationwide at the end of 2018 was 77.586 million, a decrease from the end of 2017, which is also the first decline since 1961. The discussion of delayed retirement has become heated.
This means that in an office, the presence of post-60s, post-70s, post-80s, post-90s, and post-00s is common, and there are fewer and fewer young people.
The whole society and each of us need to think about how to deal with the employment challenges brought about by age.
2020 is coming. When the old and new decades alternate, the age and intergenerational conflicts in the workplace will be magnified again, because the post-80s generation will be forty, and the post-70s generation will be 50.
Remember the phrase “4050 people”? This is a term that emerged in the 1990s when the tide of state-owned enterprise reform came.
Baidu Encyclopedia explained that this means “in the working age group, women are over 40 years old and men are over 50 years old. I have an urgent desire for employment, but because of my own poor employment conditions, single skills, etc. Laborers in market competition. “
“Looking at success or failure, you are just starting from scratch.” Liu Huan’s “Restart From scratch” once encouraged many generations of post-80s and post-90s parents. At that time, facing the unemployment problem of laid-off workers in state-owned enterprises, the government and various parties in the society provided a large number of assistance and reemployment training policies to help these 4050 people find a new direction in life.
Today, white-collar workers who have grown up in the new Internet economy are gradually “aging.” Whether it is the establishment of a lifelong learning system or an employment security mechanism, it is the direction that society needs to work together.
At the company level, it may become increasingly unfeasible to let people go by the age of 30 and rely on the “young demographic dividend” for business growth.
The company system and job settings also need to take into account more diverse intergenerational characteristics. Such as flexible working hours and locations, and a family-friendly corporate culture. A typical detail is that if young people love to stay up late and middle-aged people love to get up early, how to set up attendance is the most reasonable?
More importantly, the aging of the population is not all challenges and opportunities. The young people in each session are different from the previous one, and the middle-aged and elderly people in each session are also different from the last one, especially the post-70s and post-80s.
As Zheng Qingsheng, a partner of Sequoia Capital China Fund, said at an open conference, over time, the distribution status of all Internet users and the natural distribution of the population are getting closer and closer, in other words, the older the elderly Come more and more into the realm of modern life.
“When the post-70s and post-80s entered the elderly one after another, you will find that China has the first elderly with full spending power. This is a group we have not seen so far. Only people under 40 are today. In the consumer society. “Zheng Qingsheng said.
Everyone will grow old. Instead of fighting the physical changes brought about by age, think about how to take advantage of age.
Owen has cited the findings of Laura Carlos at Stanford’s long-term employment center, stating that employees in their 60s are generally healthier, more experienced, and more likely to be satisfied at work than younger colleagues. They are motivated, knowledgeable, good at solving social problems, and more concerned about meaningful contributions than personal advancement. They are more likely than younger colleagues to build social cohesion, share information and organize values.
If you’re almost middle-aged, consider whether you’ve established these advantages?
Writer Hu Pima has been a full-time housewife in the United States for 7 years after graduating from the Master of Journalism at Fudan University. At the age of 31, he was admitted to a law school in the United States and successfully obtained a California lawyer’s license.
“I once educated my daughter and said that you would never listen again. I will tell the teacher tomorrow. What I expected was that my daughter would return: You don’t speak English.” At that time she was immersed in various homesBusiness, sweeping the floor and plastering, shopping for cooking. The daughter’s sentence hit her. She didn’t want her daughter to grow up and question her, why didn’t she have her own life?
At the age of 27, she started preparing to return to the workplace. She took a paralegal (legal assistant) class at a community college. There were many middle-aged people in the class. The aunt sitting next to her was already in her 50s. The aunt said that she hopes to find a good job after finishing her diploma. This made her feel less anxious.
“It turned out that the hard work of life does not end at the age of 30, we can work until the age of 60 or 70,” said Hu Pima.
This is a story from the “30+ Female Intern Program” feature of Fashion COSMO
Jakii, the thematic and lifestyle director of “Fashion COSMO”, and his colleague Cheng Yi planned the “30+ Female Intern Program”. Jakii saw the ups and downs of paper media and saw many The person in the workplace is sensitive to age. She always believes that although young is beautiful, experience will not be delayed.