[Cogadh na Sith]

The trend is towards older managers? You think there’s a reason for this? Companies don’t do things like that without a reason.

Yes, because there are so many of them now and they don't retire, like in the article.

What message does that send the "younger workers"?

You never answered me: Don't you think it is odd that we call guys in their 40s "younger workers" now?

[RC2]

Why would I think it’s odd????? Would you rather work for a 20 year old that didn’t know anything or some one older that you could learn from? 40 isn’t old, it’s a lot younger than I am. I would love to be 40 again. I got my first management job in engineering when I was 26. It was hard because I had older people working for me. I treated everyone the same and used the older peoples experience to help me develop my department. Also remember, if the older people weren’t good at what they did, they wouldn’t be there.