The Silver Ceiling in Organisations
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In a country like ours, with a relatively young population, turning fifty is often not seen as a period of professional maturity, but as a threshold where invisible barriers begin to appear.
In a country like ours, with a relatively young population, turning fifty is often not seen as a period of professional maturity, but as a threshold where invisible barriers begin to appear. There is no open exclusion. No one directly
says, “That is it, you’re done now.” But during promotion cycles, names quietly start to disappear from the lists. Today, there is a term for this situation: the Silver Ceiling.
“They must have been here for centuries.” Once the initial surprise passed, I realised that age was not treated as something to hide or carry as a burden, but as a natural part of the organisation.
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ISSUE 21 GLOBAL PAYROLL MAGAZINE
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