I propose that, for the last year or two of service before retirement, there should be compulsory mentoring of older workers by their younger replacements, who will replace them in the same job when they retire. This would give older workers the assurance that their work will be as good when they retire as it was when they retired, as they would be able to pass on their own knowledge to the younger generation, based on all the experience they have accumulated throughout their working lives. It would also be a reassurance to their eventual superiors that the younger worker would also be able to do his job well later on, and that the older worker would not have to do his job any longer than intended.
 
What we are seeing nowadays is that there is a lack of real symbiosis between the incoming young and the outgoing old, and also between the young and the old generation in general, who could live essentially in harmony and exchange much-needed skills that could be useful to both in the future. This mentoring would therefore not only transfer the knowledge of the older generation to the younger generation, but also transfer the knowledge of the younger generation to the older generation in terms of new methods and various technical things, such as, for example, computer skills and similar things, without which young people nowadays mostly cannot imagine life, which could also help the older generation to understand the younger generation better, and vice versa.This would also help the older generation to understand the younger generation better, and vice versa. Today, it is all too often the case that young people see the elderly as a guarantee that they will not be able to get a job in that place, while the elderly are all too afraid of some of the young people who are coming in, lest they themselves lose their place. I think that, if this proposal is taken into account, it could help to ensure that such fears do not exist any more, because the elderly could retire peacefully when the time comes, and the younger ones could also replace them in a good way. It would also go some way to compensating for the lack of experience in this field, because young people without any real experience would have the mentoring of a man who has a lot of experience and could teach them about all the things that can happen in a particular job.
 
The only question that remains is how to really know that the younger replacement will then actually take up the post ... In addition to his normal work, this younger worker could also do a kind of partial apprenticeship as part of his working time (and consequently salary) on the later new one, of course with the latter under the watchful eye of a senior mentor. The younger worker could fully replace the older worker when, for example, the older worker has to take a sick break, a holiday or has to travel on business and knows that his younger apprentice is ready to do this work as well. Depending on how he or she performed, the company could then decide whether to continue with that person or to take on a part-time apprentice from another younger apprentice at the right time, so that when someone retires, it is guaranteed that one of these younger apprentices will then be able to do the job as well. That way, when the time comes, the older worker could retire peacefully, be replaced by a younger replacement, and someone else, also young, could come back to take the place of that younger replacement. This would complete the circle and certain positions would not require as much experience as before, as the younger workers would be properly oriented by the older ones and could thus compensate for some of the lack of experience.