Sharukh Khan in Nepal

A proper intervention should be planned on the reduction of age discrimination, the
promotion of advanced learning, improving ergonomics for older workers adaptation
of working time. Retirement plans should be provided to promote favorable conditions
for a successful collaboration of young and old people.
Novelli suggests that to accommodate older workers with their rich experiences and
wise judgement skills we can make some changes in the work timings like making
a provision for part-time or alternative work schedules, to allow older workers more
flexibility in their work life as they age.

This is a more recent method of work scheduling. It allows two or more individual
to split a traditional 40 hours a week job i.e. one person can work from 8 am to
12 noon and another person can work from 1 pm to 5 pm on the same job.
Otherwise one person can work one day and another can work on another day i.e.
alternative day. Two part time employees share one full time job. Job sharing is
desirable for people who want to work only part time or when job markets are very
tight.
The advantage for the organisation on this arrangement is that it can accommodate
the preferences of a broader range of employees and can also draw upon the talents
of more than one individual in a given job (The best example for this is the work of
a receptionist where two peoples work is not interdependent and also does not
matter greatly for the customers). We also have other profession like doctors, police,
personnel firemen, etc. doing this kind of job). It is like having two heads and paying
for one. You can have more workers for less pay and no benefits be given since they
are on part time. It gives the employees more flexibility and freedom. It increases the
motivation and satisfaction for people who cannot work for 40 hours in a week. The
major disadvantages are to find a compatible pair to share the job, which can
coordinate the intricacies of one job. However, there seem to be more success in
these types of arrangement.
Shift work is slightly different from alternative work schedule options. When the
organisations invest high capital in equipment and are in the need to compete with
the world wide markets, they are forced into operating 24 hours a day. This requires
back to back or overlapping shifts that fill the 24 hours period.
Technology also plays are important role in this change, because most of the modern
processes require continuity e.g. steel making, pulp and paper, petroleum operations
etc. All these require workers to be on the job 24 hours a day.
Another important problem which had nudged the organisations to opt for shift work
is ‘transportation’. The heavily populated business and manufacturing centres
encouraged workers to start their jobs at different times to lessen the traffic congestion.
Therefore shift work is an employment practice which is designed to make use of
the 24 hours of the clock instead of the standard working day of 8 hours. The term
shift work includes both long-term night shifts and work schedule in which employees
change or rotates their shifts.
workers and particularly night shift workers have a higher rate of gastrointestinal
problems. They experience a high rate of digestive problems due to their eating
habits. The reasons are change in eating times, the difficulty of obtaining hot, nutritious
meals during the night shift and the inability to have social contact during meal times
with family or friends. There is a disturbance in the appetite also because of lack of
the social environment during the eating time. Sleep disturbances may also play an
important part in loss of appetite and eating patterns. Besides these some other
conditions such as personality, stress on the job, coffee drinking, family problems and
social difficulties are also contributing factors