Hiring across the generation gap
13 September 2012
With the default retirement age soon to be a relic of the past, DeeDee Doke discovers that the greater battle is to change both workers’ and employers’ attitudes to age
Chris Ball fixes a steely eye on the interrogator in front of him and leans forward in his seat. “You’re looking at a 65-year-old man who’s just ridden from Blackheath on his bike to central London,” he says of his nearly 10-mile commute to work. “I’m still ambitious. I’m running an organisation that is quite demanding in terms of the output and so forth, with plenty of...
