Can Older Employees Save Money?

By Author: STEPHANIE
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The argument is flawed for a number of reasons.

I find at a glance that data from the telephone survey (which are central to the argument) are not entirely reliable, because it is likely that "older employees," out of their serf-respect, may not be as willing as younger employees to report that they do not work honestly when the supervisors are not present. Namely, there must be a larger percentage of older workers who also need the presence of supervisors than is presented in the argument.

In fact, in order to obtain any such evidence, you can not entirely rely on what people say, but have to have them supervised in such a way that your "presence" is not felt, and record and analyze what you observe. Then you know what's what.

However, even if the data are reliable, they are still no evidence that hiring "mainly older employees" "will increase productivity and save money because of the reduced need for supervisors."

First, older employees, owing to their having worked longer years and therefore trusting that they have become more experienced, will raise higher wage demand than younger employees. ...
... This will naturally cost the company more, and this increase in wages may even balance the money saved. In this way, the company will save no money Tag Heuer Replica Watches at all because of the reduced need for supervisors. And let's not forget that older employees are more likely to fall ill, to get involved in accidents, and are nearer to death. These may not result in financial losses of the company, but they are elements of distraction, causing the company to be less able to concentrate on the more important matters. No company, I'm sure, will like that.

Second, although younger employees are less disciplined, they have the advantage of being more energetic and creative. When they give their jobs to older employees and go, the company will lose that advantage. Then, great changes will take place. The work place, owing to the dominance of old people, will take on a predominantly depressive atmosphere. Many activities (sports, e. g. ) will not go on. The company's basketball team, for instance, will lose every time it plays against another company, for many of the team members are middle-aged or even old people now. This will certainly cause the employees to be less proud of the company, and there will be disappointment and lowered morale. To make things worse, fewer people will go to the managers and president, to report to them that they have got "new ideas" about what to do. And the company will find it less possible to discover and train the Tag Heuer Carrera Replica company's future experienced workers and qualified leaders, for now it has only a small group of young people to choose them from.

To sum up, when these do happen, the money saved from reducing supervisors will, on the one hand, go into increased wages for older employees, so that even financially the company will be gaining no benefit. On the other hand, owing to its reduced energy and creativity, the company will, instead of increasing its productivity , be more likely to have it decreased considerably. Since all these can be the consequences of the misleading recommendation from the director of personnel, I think it is only too natural that the president of Professional Printing Company will turn a deaf ear to it.