London: The University of Mannheim researchers have said that older staff is more productive than their younger colleagues.
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.
"While older workers make more errors, perhaps due to declining physical attributes, they hardly make any severe errors, perhaps due to more experience," the Daily Mail quoted the researchers as saying.
"It is experience that prevents severe errors," the researchers added.
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.
