Danone adjusts to its older employees

Like many long-standing industrial businesses, Danone has to face the issue of ageing employees. However, the group believes that it is perfectly possible to        reconcile industrial performance and the opportunity, for older employees, of “growing old gracefully”. Such employees are faced to difficulties to adjust, due, in particular, to musculoskeletal troubles. The group endeavours to find solutions to facilitate the adjustment of these aged employees. This population now accounts for 43% of the group’s employees in Western Europe. This is the reason why the group launched an operation to audit work stations occupied by this population in 2004.