That's very wrong and cruel. I'm ready to criticize incorrect views some people hold due to not adapting to society changes (there's a Douglas Adams quote in m

That's very wrong and cruel. I'm ready to criticize incorrect views some people hold due to not adapting to society changes (there's a Douglas Adams quote in my profile!) but we should support and help them adapt. In the case of other older workers, the bare minimum is to not wish them bad. Anecdote time: my company recently hired a guy in his mix sixties. Several people have reported some problems with him, but after looking closer, I noticed they seemed to come from a mismatch between his strength and their expectations. No one took the time to ask him if he was familiar with the technologies he was asked to use (like Slack or Tableau), or to give him at least some basic resources to get started and learn from. When we had a task that required a lot of gruesome work, I asked him to do that in Excel, since he was familiar with Microsoft Office. He performed wonderfully while other had failed due to the sheer amount of effort and concentration required for a long boring task, but also allowed us to identify short-sightings due to our cultural uniformity: he "printed" documents to PDF and linked them in Excel, which in some cases caused the text inside to be lost, which revealed a mistake in our process that assume well-formed PDF while we should have from some OCR as a second line of defense. I think it's also great showcase of the benefits from cultural diversity in the office.