It has been claimed that workers over 50 are not responsive to rapidly changing ideas in the modern workplace and that for this reason younger workers are to be preferred. Do you agree?

Many believe that younger people are preferred more than people over the age of 50 in getting ideas on the modern workplace, as older people are not rapidly responsive to the changes. I totally agree with the statement,

this

is because youngsters easily adapt to the changes and they

also

learn new thing quickly compared to people at the age of 50.

To begin

with, whenever there is an introduction of any new technology, the aged person always resists learning

such

advancement as they are very much comfortable with the existing process.

However

, the new generation always ready to accept those up-gradation and they know new innovation will be for their betterment as it will reduce their effort giving them more time to focus on other things.

For instance

, when the computer was introduced in the banking sector of India, all senior people were resisting

this

modification as they were afraid their job will be lost,

nevertheless

,juniors in the offices were welcoming

this

iteration as they knew

this

will increase their productivity and computer will enrich their knowledge.

Also

, youth are proactive to update themselves with upgrades in the technologies whereas, people of 50 plus are more reactive to new things.

This

means if any new operating systems are designed, even before launching of the product, the younger age group try to know about those update in the computer world and they do research to learn those. So that they can use their knowledge whenever that program is out in the public.

However

, older people have no

such

interest, they wait till the application is out and

then

they decide whether to learn or not to learn. To throw light on

this

,

for example

, data shows that new software is majorly learnt by modern people. As they are keen to know about the advantages of using

such

advanced technology in their day to day life, which will help them to improve their skills.

However

, older people lack

this

thought of encouraging

such

modifications.

Finally

to conclude,

although

sometimes aged person learns new technologies and give their input on how to adapt with updates , that's very rare. It's always teenagers who are proactive and suggest about new applied science, which can be adapted in the modern workplace.