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ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research

18 Sep 2024

Our changing workforce demographic and However, the extent to which the pandemic evolving attitudes towards work and has, or continues to influence mature retirement have led to a renewed interest in workers’ retirement decisions and planning understanding retirement aspirations in remains unclear. [...] Majority were interest to mature workers who not looking to advance their career in are thinking of retiring? retirement and instead seemed to approach the idea of bridge employment as a new phase of their lives. [...] It was clear from these Finding 1: The majority of comments that many expected organisations mature workers don’t to take the lead in creating job opportunities that would utilise their skills in a meaningful consider bridge employment way and communicate these opportunities to as an option in retirement workers in the lead up to retirement. [...] Further, several of to better educate themselves about the these interviewees reported that they relied social and psychological aspects of making on intuition to select the timing of their the decision to retire as this will provide a intended retirement. [...] Similar incentives via multiple opportunities may result in a change in avenues including removal of red tape to income and cashflow, the role of the financial incentivising work, providing opportunities adviser in this situation is to educate for agile uptake of employment will reduce individuals on the tax implications and barriers to successful retirement transitions strategies that can be empl.

Authors

Leah Zoszak

Pages
28
Published in
Australia

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