As innovation accelerates, the knowledge obsolescence rate increases and the mountain moves to the left The author states that the solution would be a retirement age of 40, which would create an incentive for employees to make an effort to keep productivity low.

The “theory of the mandatory retirement age of 35” has long been debated in the software industry.


This page is auto-translated from /nishio/年功序列とIT革命 using DeepL. If you looks something interesting but the auto-translated English is not good enough to understand it, feel free to let me know at @nishio_en. I’m very happy to spread my thought to non-Japanese readers.