Four in 10 UK employees concerned about working into retirement

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Over a quarter (27%) of international employees are concerned about the possibility of having to work longer than they wanted to due to financial constraints later in life, a report from HSBC reveals.

The global study, The Future of Retirement, found that this fear was most prevalent among countries where the state retirement age was currently under review such as the UK (40%), US (40%) and France (34%). However, in contrast to these workers, over one third (35%) of employees on a global scale said they aspired to continue working to some extent in later life. The willingness to demonstrate a more flexible attitude to where work ended and where retirement began was most prevalent in the emerging markets of Latin American and Asia where, for example, almost half (47%) of employees i...

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