After the attacks of September 11, 2001 more than 40 percent of the FBI agents around the world had five or less years of experience on the job. The agency was partially to blame because of its policy of mandatory retirement at age 57. This caused what was described as a "brain drain" because so many of the more experience analysts were gone. The solution was to hire back the retirees as consultants and classify them as temporary employees so as not to affect their pensions. The problem is not unique to the FBI and seems stem from society's obsession with youth.
The CVS pharmacy chain, on the other hand, was proactive in the matter of retaining older workers. In 1992 seven percent of their employees were over 55. A study of these older workers found that they were less likely to call in sick than the younger employees. They also held their own in terms of physical labor and demanding managerial positions (Mullich, 2003).
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) conducted a survey of 2001 persons between the ages of 50 and 70. When asked their opinions about retirement sixty-three percent said they planned to work at least part-time. Five percent said they had no plans to retire either because they liked to work or they needed the money.
The FBI could have turned to AARP's Staying Ahead of the Curve 2003: The AARP Working in Retirement Study to answer the question of how to retain or entice older employees to stay with the company.
According to the executive summary of the AARP study information for the survey was gathered nationwide by telephone. The respondents were between the ages of 50 and 70 and employed either full- or part-time. The purpose of the survey was three-fold:
It explored the respondents' vision of retirement.
It sought to shed light on the types of jobs that workers who plan to work in retirement imagine holding.
Types of jobs currently held by today's "working retirees" where working retirees are those who have reported retiring from one job and are now working part-time or full-time in another.
The telephone interviews were conducted by random digit dialing between April 9th and June 5th in 2003. A total of 2001 people were interviewed. The limitations of the research study are that there is no one definition of retirement that is applies to all workers.
The motivation to continue working is receiving more and more scientific attention . Reasons for this include an increasing life expectancy and health of workers which allows them to keep working after retirement age. It is important for organizations to motivate employees to continue working because the changing demographics result in a declining workforce in western countries (OECD, 2005). Another related problem might be people who retire before the official retirement age as the workforce will
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Retirement has been defined by Feldman as “. . .the exit from an organizational position or career path of considerable duration, taken by individuals after middle age, and taken with the intention of reduced psychological commitment to work thereafter” (Feldman 1994, p. 285). In most western countries, retirement was invented in the late nineteenth century mainly to cover several needs related to the growing middle class, among these to be a tool to attract loyal workers but also to administer the
retire at all. Retirement age has had a significant impact on all generations from baby-boomers to millennials. In recent years’ older generations are working longer, lifespans are increasing and government pensions are fluctuating. Individuals and organizations are struggling to find a balance between experience and opportunity. Poor economic conditions and longer lifespans have resulted in the termination of mandatory retirement policies and the evolving opportunity for longer working careers. Changes
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families. The three options that can give the working class a
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