職場新手鴨梨好大 老闆更喜歡老員工

Older staff are more productive than their younger colleagues, say researchers. More mature members of staff may be weaker and less agile than their junior counterparts, but they more than compensate with their greater experience, ability to work in teams, and success at coping when things go wrong. The researchers say: ‘While older workers make more errors, perhaps due to declining physical attributes, they hardly make any severe errors, perhaps due to more experience. ‘It is experience that prevents severe errors.’

在70、80甚至90年代，“大學生”三個字是閃耀着光輝金光熠熠的，是凝聚了社會以及家庭的濃厚期望的，一個家裏“產出”一名大學生是多麼光宗耀祖的事情。然而，進入了21世紀，大學生這個稱號除了飽含社會的期望和自豪感之外，還凝聚了更多的尷尬、和無奈，超高的失業率，過低的大學生就業率讓大學生這個詞平添了許多煩惱。有專家經過研究發現：公司的老員工比年輕一輩，特別是新一代的大學生更有競爭力。因爲，他們相對年輕的同業者來說思維更加敏銳、更沉着、經驗更豐富，團隊合作能力更強。專家總結：因爲年齡的原因，年紀越大，生理功能下降，老員工有可能會犯很多小錯誤；但是另一方面，由於老員工擁有更多的經驗，他們不會犯許多大的、嚴重的錯誤。

The scientists who studied production lines at a Mercedes-Benz truck factory in southern Germany also found that younger, more highly educated workers were less productive than those who had fewer qualifications – perhaps because the educated workers got bored more easily. The researchers, from the University of Mannheim, said their findings debunked the idea that older workers should be made redundant to boost productivity.

在德國南部-梅塞德斯·奔馳工廠生產線的科學家發現，年輕、教育水平更高的工作比那些證書拿得少的員工（老員工）生產效率要低得多。科學家分析，教育程度高的年輕人在工作中容易感覺無聊，不懂得沉下心去研究工作。來自 Mannheim大學的研究員稱，這項研究徹底顛覆了---老員工纔對工作產生懈怠感覺的理論。