2023-09-20 08:29:26
Of all the problems that the German economy is currently facing, the personnel shortage is the one that has been the longest issue. It is all the more shameful that until the mid-noughties, many German companies happily sent older employees into early retirement – subsidized with billions of euros from German unemployment insurance.
Although it had long been known at this point that the demographic logic on the labor market would be reversed just a few years later and that Germany would march deeper into the skilled worker shortage with each passing year, golden handshakes were still diligently distributed to supposedly superfluous skilled workers. What madness!
Use the knowledge of experience
In the meantime, a rethinking process has begun – out of necessity – in many places, even if, for example, in the stumbling automobile industry, layoffs can often only be prevented because positions vacated by (early) retirees are not filled. However, most human resources managers have long since responded to the bottlenecks and, like Lufthansa Technik, are trying to make the expertise of the veterans usable for as long as possible.
Ian Liesch Published/Updated: , Recommendations: 89 A comment from Bernd Freytag, Mainz Published/Updated: , Recommendations: 5 Helmut Bünder, Düsseldorf Published/Updated: , Recommendations: 11 Published/Updated: Recommendations: 6
This requires career paths that give older employees in particular what is important to many: flexibility and the opportunity to pass on their knowledge. Contrary to the image often conveyed, the earliest possible escape into retirement is not per se the top priority of all employees. In the final phase of a professional career, many people are still prepared to contribute fully – provided they still feel respect and appreciation for their performance. By the way, you are not alone in this.
This can also be a recipe for younger colleagues to counteract the often complained lack of employer loyalty. In contrast to the expensive mistakes of the past, this measure is also incredibly cheap.
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