Why are we ageist?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We look at how many employers still base decisions on a person's age, despite the strong pressures in higher income countries to retain and encourage older staff.
What are the underlying reasons for this prejudice?
And Ed meets a cosmetic doctor at a central London clinic to discuss the increase in demand for anti-ageing procedures, for people who want to look younger at work.
Presenter: Ed Butler Producer: Amber Mehmood
(Picture: A man and a woman sit at a table at work, with a woman standing up talking to them. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Una Chaplin, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles. |
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| 0:23.1 | Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily here on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:27.7 | We're in the third of our programs looking at ageism in the workplace. |
| 0:31.9 | We're turning our attention to solutions to the problem. |
| 0:35.4 | How do you fix employers' deep-rooted prejudices? Definitely ageism needs to be |
| 0:40.6 | part of the training. They can look at stats for hiring by gender or race, for example, so let's look at it |
| 0:47.6 | by age as well. Or is it more about older workers themselves challenging the agist within? |
| 0:56.0 | Age is just a number. It's just whether you want to put your foot forward and start walking. |
| 1:01.0 | Have confidence and believe in yourself. |
| 1:03.0 | Fixing workplace ageism, that's Business Daily from the BBC. |
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| 1:22.3 | I'm stepping through the rotating doors into the best hotel in London, as he's calling it, |
| 1:26.6 | because I've heard this place is taking the lead in terms of workplace ageism. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm in the beautifully marbled atrium of the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane with Martin Nail. He's the 57-year-old |
| 1:34.9 | culinary director. So Martin, this is where the magic happens. Yeah, this is where we leave |
| 1:42.1 | the luxury behind and then get to reality. |
| 1:46.8 | We're heading down into the hotel's main kitchen now, |
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