Employee age gaps threaten teamwork and productivity

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With four generations actively participating in the workforce, there’s a lot employees can learn from each other. Instead, these age gaps may be getting in the way of progress — and productivity. 

In organizations where there is more than a 12-year age gap between employees and their managers, employees were 1.5 times more likely to report low productivity, according to recent research published by the London School of Economics and Protiviti. The same employees were also three times more likely to be unsatisfied with their jobs

Paola Peralta
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Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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