Are there advantages to hiring older workers? Many businesses are finding that there are. Around 200 employers including Google and AT&T have signed an AARP pledge to recognize the value of older employees and to consider applicants over 50, The Associated Press reports.

In this day and age, many business owners try to steer clear of hiring workers over 50. This is often due to stereotypes that older employees are slower, don’t understand new technology, and just lack energy in general. However, these perceptions couldn’t be further from the truth.

Many employers are finding that older workers bring many benefits to a job that young workers may lack. Here are five advantages to hiring workers over 50:

There you have it. Who said out with the old, in with the new? As some of the world’s top businesses would say, they may just want to rethink that.

Related Resources:

  • 5 Good Reasons To Hire Older Workers (Business Insider)
  • Age Discrimination: An Age-Old Problem (FindLaw’s Free Enterprise)
  • Age Discrimination Laws: How Old is Old Enough? (FindLaw’s Law and Daily Life)
  • Browse Employment Law – Employer Lawyers by Location (FindLaw)

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