Research on age and job performance shows that older workers are typically better in which regard than are younger workers? A. giving advice to co-workers about their personal lives. B. working in shifts in which their hours change weekly. C. taking fewer voluntary absences for personal reasons. D. performing transportation jobs in which driving is required.

C. Taking fewer voluntary absences for personal reasons.

Explanation:

Research on age and job satisfaction reveals that older employees take fewer voluntary absences for personal reasons as compared to the younger workers. Older employees are usually more satisfied with their job and there has been a quite consistent relationship between job satisfaction and absenteeism, but it ranges from moderate to weak. It definitely makes sense that dissatisfied employees will miss their duties and job more often as compared to the satisfied workers. Older employees also have more experience about performing the job better and they might have worked at many other places as well, therefore, they take fewer volunteer absences for personal reasons and they perform their duties in a more focused way because they can't afford leaving the job or terminated from the job.