{"id":140878,"date":"2026-07-23T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/140878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:53:08","slug":"at-what-age-are-canadian-workers-most-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/140878\/","title":{"rendered":"At what age are Canadian workers most productive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0363_639204094763228526.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Industry-level results show wide variation<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The latest StatCan report breaks results down by sector and finds that construction and manufacturing firms peak earlier, at an average worker age of 36 to 40, and decline more sharply afterward than other industries studied. Faryaar attributes this pattern in part to the physical demands of the work, stating that in construction, &#8220;experience may play a smaller role in enhancing productivity, or the gains from experience among older workers may be partially offset by a decline in physical capabilities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In both the construction and manufacturing sectors, the report found that firms with an average worker age of 56 and older had lower labour productivity than firms in the youngest reference category, a finding that did not hold true across other sectors examined.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By contrast, the finance and insurance sector showed continued productivity gains into the late 40s with only a modest decline afterward. StatCan cautions, however, that &#8220;the finance and insurance sector has substantially larger robust standard errors than the other sectors examined in this study,&#8221; and recommends greater caution when interpreting those particular estimates.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Wholesale trade, retail trade, and transportation and warehousing firms peaked at ages 41 to 45, with productivity in the oldest age category remaining significantly above that of the youngest reference group, a pattern the report says suggests experience continues to carry more weight in these sectors than in physically demanding ones, notes Faryaar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Industry-level results show wide variation The latest StatCan report breaks results down by sector and finds that construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,46466,9027,38600],"class_list":["post-140878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-multigenerational-workplaces","tag-productivity","tag-statistics-canada-statcan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}