Catch-55 – our failure to keep older people at work

Michael Skapinker, commentator at the FT, credits a reader with the wittily apt ‘Catch-55’.  The term sums up the dilemma faced by older workers who, with longer lives, later pensions and possibly second families need to work well into old age.  The problem is, once you hit 50, employers do not want to recruit or […]

Looking for the silences – about masculinity and organisations

Walking along the London South Bank on Sunday evening I passed a restaurant where a group of twenty-something men were standing greeting a number of their mates.  They all hugged and kissed. For a moment, on seeing the hugs and kisses, I was taken aback and then amused for reacting. But it led me to […]