The Importance of Generation Diversity in the Workplace

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In an aging society, we're going to see just a lot more age equality. But there's very surprisingly little evidence that productivity is less amongst older workers. Most innovative ideas come when you take a young researcher with a more experienced researcher and bring them together. There's never any one point in time where your brain is best at everything.

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Andrew J. Scott. Scott is professor of economics at London Business School; his work focuses on the economics of longevity. He's co-founder of the Longevity Forum and a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on Healthy Aging and Longevity, topics that are very much the focus of the McKinsey Health Institute. His book The 100-Year Life has sold more than a million copies in 15 languages. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following: