The San Jose Mercury News reports on a Manpower survey about the aging workforce and employer policies towards that workforce.

The conclusion: Most companies do not have policies to attract or retain older workers. (14 percent have policies to attract and 21 percent have policies designed to retain aging workers.) ⇒ Read more

Being a borderline old fart, this caught my eye.

PBS | I, Cringely . October 27, 2005 - Changing the Guard: "In the U.S. the Baby Boom generation includes anyone born from 1946-64, which means everyone 41-59 years old. Those ages generally cover the top technical management positions in most companies and universities and they are starting to retire. But as anyone who reads magazines knows, this generation of upcoming retirees acts younger and healthier than the generations that preceded it and they plan to have very active older years. At the urging of reader Joel Franusic, I've been thinking of what implications this has for Open Source software. ⇒ Read more