A potential gap looms between employee and employer expectations of when workers will retire, an Aegon report has warned.
The international survey of 9,000 people and 12 major companies found employers will have to more actively supporting employees at the end of their careers as phased retirement becomes the norm in the US and Western Europe. The UK officially abolished the default retirement age on 5 October which had previously allowed employers to enforce retirement at 65. The Aegon report, The Changing Face of Retirement: The Workplace Perspective, written in collaboration with Transamerica Center for Retirement, found 69% of UK employees expect to work beyond retirement. But the survey found emp...
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