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Welcome to the Clark Howard Show, where our mission is to serve and empower you see make better financial decisions in your life.

In today's episode, an update on how one effect of the pandemic has been early retirement for many and how that's ugly for the economy.

And also, I want to talk about an experience I've had personally for the first time ever about running something I've talked about for years and tell you my experience that could save you money.

So, wow, we got to talk.

You know, employers have used the pandemic as an excuse as a way of getting rid of people that are older workers.

And they've been able to avoid any discrimination, age discrimination oversight, really.

By using the pandemic as a way of pairing back work forces, really giving it to older employees, them taking it on the chin.

And the crazy thing is the reality companies that do that end up lowering their future profitability.

And they think they're so smart treating older workers like dirt and treating them as refuse or surplus.

And hiring somebody younger cheaper.

And yeah, there are advantages at least immediately with payroll.

But what do you lose?

You lose the institutional memory.

I've seen that in so many industries, so many businesses where they decide they're going to pair payroll.

And they really go after the older workers and they end up thinking that they're doing something really clever.

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