How To Prevent Age Discrimination At Workplace

It's more crucial than ever for companies to put more effort to maintain diversity and inclusivity. Workplace diversity brings out productivity and eventually is a part of a company's success and higher revenues.

We have heard conversations about bias based on race, gender and sexuality but one area that is less talked about is age discrimination. Let's see what age discrimination is and how you can prevent it -

What is age discrimination?

Whenever a person faces any kind of biased behavior due to their age it is a form of discrimination. It can happen to a person of any age sometimes they can be labeled as too old sometimes too young for any given task or project. It can happen during recruitment as well as at the workplace.

How to prevent it?

1. Educate all the employees about bias especially leads and managers

2. Create one for all and neutral company policies

3. Create a diverse hiring strategy

4. Monitor the hiring ads and job descriptions carefully

5. Aim to have a multigenerational team

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