DECRYPTION – Those over 50 are often the first to be pushed out of the company, the last to be recruited, and receive little support towards retirement.
Like its European neighbors, France is aging. A phenomenon that it owes in particular to advances in medicine, which have enabled it to « gain more than ten years of life expectancy over the last fifty years »underlines Sibylle Le Maire, founder of Club Landoy, a business collective committed to the issues of demographic transition.
This transformation involves major issues for society as a whole, including the place of seniors within the company. Their number continues to increase. The employment rate of 55-64 year olds reached 60.8% in the third quarter of 2024, a historic high. Compared to some of its neighbors, however, Paris still has a way to go. In Germany and Denmark, the proportion rises to 75%. In Sweden, the champion of the Twenty-Seven, it even reached 78%.
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