[43north]

There may be several reasons for this.

Experience and strong work ethic come to mind.

Older workers have both. Younger workers, not so much.

[rbg81]

Yup, that was my take on it. The lack of work ethic among some of these younger kids is just jaw dropping.

[davetex]

“There may be several reasons for this.

Experience and strong work ethic come to mind.

Older workers have both. Younger workers, not so much.”

This.

We have some 20 something kids where I WORK. They no nothing about work. They don’t want to learn how to work. They are arrogant, lazy, it’s impossible to teach them anything as they already know everything.

When I was coming up most of the guys my age would kill to be able hang around with the older guys just to learn. We respected those guys and understood they’ve been there done that and had tons of knowledge that we only dreamed about. One of my earliest jobs was in a precision sheet metal shop. There were a couple of older guys there that built airplanes for WW2. I thought those guys could walk on water.

It is a different world today.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Experience and strong work ethic come to mind. Older workers have both. Younger workers, not so much.

Hey, more work for us. Time to go for that better paying job for your final qualifying quarters of SS...and then don't retire.

[Myrddin]

Experience, work ethic and ability to do the job. Too many applicants want a pay check, but don't really want to work. A few that are willing to work don't have the skills to get it done. I'm 56 and put in a minimum 10 hour day writing software and managing a development group. My book shelves of full of the latest technological developments in languages, operating systems and development methodologies as well as security/hacking/defensive coding tomes. If you're not constantly updating those skill sets, you won't remain employed for long.

[detective]

“There may be several reasons for this.
Experience and strong work ethic come to mind.
Older workers have both. Younger workers, not so much.”

Or it could be that the data is flawed. All those new jobs the economy is suposedly creating don’t fit with reality. They had to put those phony jobs somewhere in the statistics. The probably figured the older demographic was easiest place to hide their errors.