Employee motivation affected by removal of default retirement age

Date: 13/08/2010

Employee motivation could be impacted upon when the government implements proposals that call for the scrapping of the default retirement age.

According to the Institute of Employment Studies (IES), firms may have to overhaul their employee motivation strategies - including corporate conferences and team building corporate events - if they are to make the most of their older workers.

The organisation claims that businesses should be proactive in this area and avoid waiting until changes to the default retirement age come into force.

Helen Barnes, principle research fellow at the IES, said: "In some firms, there is a kind of implicit idea that perhaps people will lose motivation or interest or that their performance will in some ways be poorer as they get older."

She claimed that teaching has been highlighted as such a profession.

Mike Emmott, public policy advisor at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, recently claimed that employers should ensure workers remain engaged when the default retirement age is increased.

Written by Michael Ewing

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