It is a great good both for the individual and for society if more seniors are in the job longer. For the individual, is the workplace a place you can feel connected, learn and contribute. For society is the work that provides prosperity.

There are many in the job, which is the basis of that we can be so generous with welfare that we have in all of the nordic countries. Surveys Tankesmien Agenda has conducted also shows that employers most want a mixture of older and younger workers.

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the Government and the parties in the workplace have now agreed on a new agreement on inclusive working life, and one of the two national objectives are that the dropout rate in the workforce is to be reduced. This must not only relate to work against langtidssykmelding and disability insurance, but should also be stronger help to ensure that fewer step out of the workforce early. Norway has a need for more seniors continue longer in work.

For more people to stand longer in the job, is the emphasis placed on competence in the new agreement is important. Tankesmien Agenda has advocated for a competence boost of the workforce for that seniorene to be better equipped for adaptation and specialization. In the future will be more learning on the job and more training, be necessary for that seniorene not to be pushed out of the changes in the labour market.

But is there any way to think even larger? In the future, we will become healthier and increasingly more are living longer. It also offers new challenges.

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With higher life expectancy in the population, there are several that will experience to have sick parents who need support and care from the family. It can be demanding, and the threshold to retire early will be lower if you have a mother or a father who is ill. In the new Agenda-the note about the older, own omsorgsdager for workers with sick parents one of several suggestions that can help to ensure that more elderly can stand longer in the job. It would support the ambitions of the IA-agreement.

Seniorene in the workplace is so important that we are all obliged to think more about how we can hold on to more of them.