Commentary: Yes, you can peak in your career in your sixties

Charles Darwin was 50 before he published On the Origin of the Species in 1859. Colonel Sanders was 65 when he founded Kentucky Fried Chicken.Bernhard Langer, now 63, is still winning professional golf tournaments with 11 senior major championships under his belt.

A group of seniors playing the traditional game of chapteh in Singapore. Photo taken from the Singapore Chapteh Facebook page. Age discrimination in the workplace is illegal as per Singapore’s employment law. Yet it seems to be a widely accepted notion that older workers are not as productive, as technologically savvy or as agile as their younger counterparts.

But older workers have natural strengths employers should appreciate. A recent study by the American Association of Retired Persons on the global workforce, confirms older workers tend to be more productive, mature, engaged and have lower rates of turnover and absenteeism than younger workers.A more mature workforce brings the incomparable advantage of years of experience, subject matter expertise, and problem-solving capabilities.

When I first arrived in Singapore in 1991, I was taken aback to see the retirement age of partners in our Big Five firm was 55. This seemed like a rather short runway to retirement.

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