I think it is important to be the voice that shows the stereotypes, negates the Corporate Speak, and tell it like it is for knowledge workers. That’s why it’s Cube Rules.

It is a good conversation.

I think it is important to be the voice that shows the stereotypes, negates the Corporate Speak, and tell it like it is for knowledge workers. That’s why it’s Cube Rules.

It is a good conversation.

Some do and see employing older boomers as one to fill up the empty chairs when boomers start retiring in droves. Weyerhaeuser in Washington state has set up a special program to train boomers to work part time after they retire.

I write a boomer consumer blog called The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide at http://boomersurvive-thriveguide.typepad.com and a blog called the Boomer Consumer for the Seattle Post Intelligencer at http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/boomerconsumer/.

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Some do and see employing older boomers as one to fill up the empty chairs when boomers start retiring in droves. Weyerhaeuser in Washington state has set up a special program to train boomers to work part time after they retire.

I write a boomer consumer blog called The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide at http://boomersurvive-thriveguide.typepad.com and a blog called the Boomer Consumer for the Seattle Post Intelligencer at http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/boomerconsumer/.

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Boomers experience is valuable because they have seen and solved many issues before — they get to the answer faster. Whether it is a process bottleneck, a customer issue, or how to build something faster, boomers have done it before significantly reducing the learning curve.

But all that goes away if you don’t know how to use Word, or Excel, or how to use the web. You can’t have a John McCain “Google” moment as a boomer interviewing for a job.

Boomers experience is valuable because they have seen and solved many issues before — they get to the answer faster. Whether it is a process bottleneck, a customer issue, or how to build something faster, boomers have done it before significantly reducing the learning curve.

But all that goes away if you don’t know how to use Word, or Excel, or how to use the web. You can’t have a John McCain “Google” moment as a boomer interviewing for a job.

But at the same time, they have so much to offer by way of experience that companies should not blithely dump them, but rather allow them to share their experience with their younger colleagues. They, in turn, can share their seemingly greater technological prowess with the Boomers who could benefit from it.

But at the same time, they have so much to offer by way of experience that companies should not blithely dump them, but rather allow them to share their experience with their younger colleagues. They, in turn, can share their seemingly greater technological prowess with the Boomers who could benefit from it.