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While that quote from Melinda Gates in
The Guardian referred to findings about racism, gender inequality and poverty, HR Branches owner and chief problem solver Reanna Werner thinks it applies to age discrimination as well.
Older people who want to work might have a better chance of getting jobs this summer as employers scramble to fill available positions, Werner said.
But age discrimination in the workplace hasnât gone away, said Susan Weinstock, AARP vice president for financial resilience programming.
âWe did a survey at the end of last year, and we asked people how they were feeling about their job security,â Weinstock said, âand 61 percent of employed workers [age] 40 and up said theyâre concerned that they could lose their job in 2021, and they said that age would be a factor.â
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The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought many changes in the workplace. It has decimated some businesses while increasing the demand for othersâ goods and services. It has highlighted weaknesses and inequalities and forced the adoption of new business models.
While businesses have been affected in many different ways, one thing is universal.
âThe pandemic has changed the way we do business for good,â said Aikta Marcoulier, executive director of the Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center.
The
Business Journal asked Marcoulier and other business leaders to talk about the top five trends and challenges the pandemic has presented, and how some businesses have found better ways of doing business that will persist as we move forward toward recovery.