ReCode: Older workers can be more reliable and productive than their younger counterparts. October 18, 2016 by Garret Vreeland in Small Business, Psychology, Programming The 65–to-80-year-old workers’ performance was actually more stable, less variable from day to day than the younger group. [snip] In fact, the older adults’ cognitive performance was more consistent over time than that of the younger workers.HAH. Take that, ageism.