Early retirement? Don't even think about it
If older people are to stay in the workplace, employers will have to change their attitudes and practices
FOR the past 30 or so years, something peculiar has been happening. Decade by decade, life expectancy for older people has risen at unprecedented rates. Yet those older people have taken a double dividend by retiring earlier and earlier, stretching the start of effective retirement often to as early as 50. In turn, more and more younger workers have dreamt of retiring even earlier.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Early retirement? Don't even think about it”
From the March 23rd 2002 edition
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