A Van Zanten comic for the economist magazine ESB. A way to vitalise companies and to offer chances to younger employees is ‘demotion’: offering older employees other jobs, with less stress and less salary. Research has shown that this measure is unpopular, with the older as well as the younger employees… My translation: 1) My company is ageing. I have to take action! 2) My older employees are expensive and they are less productive. But take a step back? No way! 3) And the young ones don’t like to work in a company that casts aside its 55-plussers by offering them a lower salary. 4) I think about offering myself a demotion to the post room.
Een Van Zanten stripje voor het economenblad ESB, over demotie. Het middel om bedrijven te verjongen is niet populair bij zowel oud als jong, zo leert onderzoek.