Why is there a 35-year-old "glass door" in the workplace?

China Economic Weekly recently published the article "After 8 years, delayed retirement is coming! Expert: It is suggested to start with women and extend from 50 to 55. One of the focuses of netizens' debate is whether to cancel the age limit of 35 for conscription before the gradual delayed retirement.

Before you say 35, say a 45-year-old "terrier" Recently, a notice was posted in a vegetable market, demanding that "saleswomen should not be over 45 years old", which frightened those "35+"friends and made fun of them: if they don't work hard, they won't even be qualified to go home to sell vegetables after 10 years.

Thirty-five years old has become a critical point in the workplace, and it is also a nightmare for middle-aged workers for many years. There is one question that I still can't figure out. Why is 35 years old the "glass door" of the workplace, or even the "door of life and death"? I searched online, but I didn't find an authoritative answer, and I don't know who drew the lever. But looking around, this lever is like an iron threshold, often stuck in various recruitment, which has become everyone's unspoken rule.

However, its irrationality is obvious. Macroscopically, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's elderly population will exceed 300 million, and it will move from mild aging to moderate aging. Under the grim reality, delaying retirement is the general trend, and the hoofbeat is getting closer and closer. Under such circumstances, it is absurd to encounter "invisible retirement" at the age of 35, and job hunting is blocked everywhere. You know, they still have at least 20 years before they really retire, which is double or triple the time they have to work. Microscopically, under normal circumstances, a person who graduated from a 23-year-old university to a 35-year-old has entered the golden age of his life after 12 years of work experience. It's neither scientific nor fair, and it's a waste of talent.

There are some realistic factors behind the "35-year-old crisis", but more are caused by conceptual constraints. If flight attendants were all beautiful young girls more than twenty years ago, can you imagine the existence of Aunt Kong? Are you still surprised to see a 50-year-old empty aunt shuttling in the cabin? This shows that it's not that Aunt Kong can't be a stewardess at all, but that the traditional concept has bound Aunt Kong's hands and feet. For another example, everyone thinks that programmers are young people, generally no more than 35 years old, but many foreign programmers over 60 or even 70 years old are still active in the front line. What does this mean? In this age full of passion and vitality, and in this age where the average life expectancy is as high as 70 or 80 years, the old concept and wrong practice of "35-year-old discrimination" is a countercurrent.

The concept remains the same, and the concept varies from world to world. To break the "35-year-old curse", we have to find a breakthrough from the concept. The biggest concept is laws and regulations. Laws and regulations must say no to age discrimination, so that middle-aged workers can confidently cross the threshold of 35, but the current laws and regulations are not clear about this. The leader of this concept is the government. The concept of the government is mainly embodied in the selection and employment of people. The talents in the world should use it, and age should not be given such a high weight. When mainstream values are recognized, society will naturally follow suit.