ABSTRACT
Welcoming Workplace: Rapid Design Intervention to Determine the Office Environment Needs of Older Knowledge Workers Prof. Jeremy Myerson and Jo-Anne Bichard, (Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art)
In the early years of the 21st century, growing numbers of older workers will not retire from the office workplace but will remain at work for longer, many of them on a consultancy, special-project or part-time basis. Several factors are driving this trend: a shortfall in pension funds; a management emphasis on retaining knowledge and experience built up over years; age and disability discrimination legislation offering more protection to older workers; and, above all, the plain demographic facts of population ageing (one in two European adults of working age will be over 50 by 2020).1
