Recruiting and retaining older workers

Faced with demographic shifts and skills shortages, some US organisations have decided that the smart move is to recruit and retain workers over 50. But as a recent issue of Workforce Management discovered, a large older workforce brings special HR and reward challenges.

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Title: "The don't retire them, they hire them", by Joe Mullich, Workforce Management December 2003.

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Posted 5 January 2004