Age Diversity in the Workplace - 5 Lessons from The Intern

Have you seen the film The Intern from back in 2015? 🎬 It tells the story of Ben Whittaker (DeNiro), a seventy-year-old Executive that decided to apply as an intern in a scale-up after retirement had become too boring for him. It serves as an excellent analogy for the benefits of age diversity in the workplace. 🎯

In this Learning Bite, we describe 5 main takeaways about age diversity in the office and how it can help you improve your organizational performance:

0:00 - Intro
1:05 - 💡Age diversity means skills diversity
1:33 - 💡Age diversity opens the mind
2:18 - 💡Age diversity creates mutual mentors
3:26 - 💡Have an adequate onboarding process
3:46 - 💡Age diversity makes us nicer people
4-29 - Outro

Every generation brings a different set of skills and mindset to the table, and you do not want to miss out on that.

Watch the full video to discover in detail the benefits of age diversity in the workplace ☝️

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[tulaykutlu]

I would like to thank you for your guidance via all the Learning Bites episodes with their supporting documents. I wish this video had transcript, too.

[rishabhjain]

Thanks a lot AIHR for this video. As part of my curriculum, I'm doing my research dissertation on the very similar stiff presented here. It's on Identifying learning needs of multi-generational workforce. Thanks again for sharing these rich contents. 👍👍