Workplace experiences and career advice seem to be a source of endless fascination for 20-somethings, and entire communities of blogs have sprung up offering all kinds of peer-to-peer guidance on everything from getting past the job interview to personal branding. What you rarely hear is the other side of the story: the experiences of older ...

According to Aging Workforce News, the online job site CareerBuilder.com has launched a site specifically dedicated to workers 50 and older, driven by results of their recent survey which found that 22% of employers plan to rehire retirees from other companies in 2008 and that 14% of employers plan to provide incentives for older workers to stay ...

This landed in my inbox this morning, indirectly from Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen: Between the ages of 25 and 60, the time users need to complete website tasks increases by 0.8% per year. In other words, a 40-year-old user will take 8% longer than a 30-year-old user to accomplish the same task. And a 50-year-old user will require an ...