[EvertonDiehard]

Meaning these 60 turn 40 can work for another 20 more years. Will employers buy that? Employers want to cut cost. To continue employing the new 40  they will not be able to do so. They will come out with reasons that these 60s' are slow, unwilling to learn and unable to adapt to change.

Ageism is widely practiced by many employers who consider older workers to be more costly to hire, believe that it is tougher for them to acquire new skills and would rather invest in training and development programmes for younger staff. Workers above 40 routinely make up 2/3 of resident workers who lose their jobs every year. I doubt that the vast majority of these staff were dead wood, but were made redundant because of discrimination.