SENIOR POWER: 63-year-old German Angela Runge presenting some food she has prepared for young software designers during a lunch in a IT firm in Berlin. Although she is approaching retirement age, Runge is part of a growing group of elderly citizens and pensioners employed by German companies in a push to create an inter-generational and experience-sharing workforce.
BERLIN: Tech start-ups may often be littered with empty pizza boxes, but at a Berlin IT firm, a mouth-watering aroma wafting across the desks promises something truly revolutionary — a tasty and wholesome home-cooked lunch.
While the youthful software designers have been tinkering on their latest smartphone apps, 63-year-old Angela Runge has beavered away in her kitchen at home, preparing a meal that is a far cry from common office fare.
