In ten years, the massive baby-boom generation will begin to reach retirement age, but few companies have paid attention to the fact that there are not enough younger workers to replace them. The challenge to corporate America, as Beverly Goldberg argues in Age Works, is to reinvent the workplace to make it better fit the needs of all employees, especially the older workers it must retain in order to thrive.

Beverly Goldberg is Vice President of The Century Foundation, a New York-based think tank. Cofounder and principal of Siberg Associates, a management consulting firm, she is the author of three previous books on business and technology, and she is a frequent contributor to management Journals and newspaper opinion pages. She lives in New York City.