Many employers believe, whether they admit it or not, that employee performance declines with age. Many employers in fact state we are looking for new blood, fresh blood, better spirit (finally got over the blood thing!), yet this doesn’t necessarily mean older employees are worse.

Or can you? This saying has been widely used to express how hard it would be, or even impossible, to teach older people new techniques, or for example technologies.

In this first post of Fact or Fiction, we target one of the sayings that has been around for as long as men and women have been on Earth, and as long as there has been jobs (one of the reasons women in certain fields are less paid than women) .. “Men perform better than [...]