Older workers are more engaged!

You would think that things are bad enough for us blokes at the moment....what with England getting booted out of the World Cup! But the good old Daily Mail have followed up their recent article on our immunity to nagging, with another article this Wednesday...going in studs up with the headline:

"More than three-quarters of mothers say their partner 'never lifts a finger' around the house!"

It's the fathers amongst us who are targeted here. And in a study commissioned by thebabywebsite.com into mothers' feelings about their other half's attitude towards home life and housework, some pretty damning comments are made.

Comments like:  "Puts his feet up!" "Deliberately ignoring  tasks!" "Left to manage the house and the children!"  And they rounded things off with a top 20 wish-list of jobs that dad's should do. Podium positions going to 1)"tidy up after themselves" 2)"clean toilets" 3) "fix things around the house." So please take note lads.

Interestingly the Daily Mail carried another article the same day which may have a bearing on all of this?

"Men get more fired up about work the nearer they are to retirement!"

This article reports on a Government commissioned study at the University of Portsmouth into employee engagement levels as men and women near retirement. The key finding was that albeit from a lower level of engagement men have a higher "bounce back" level at the end of their careers.

And a key conclusion from the study that us OnWeGo'ers should definitely be shouting about is:  

"...older, more experienced workers are generally more 'engaged', employers should be encouraged to hang on to those who would like to work beyond the current statutory retirement age."

So let's go for it then!
By the way. When putting the two articles together I couldn't help theorising on a likely cause of this pre-retirement "bounce."
Could it be the thought of tidying up after ourselves ... cleaning toilets... and all those things around the house we never fixed???