INTRODUCTION
Retirement Is a Transition (Not an Ending)
Across the world, people are reinventing what it means to “retire.” As we live longer productive lives, the old 65ish goalpost is giving way to a large variety of ways and times for withdrawal from the world of full-time, paid work. And although retirement used to be top of mind only for those of us in our 50s and beyond, more early-career folks are thinking about the end of their working life at the beginning of their career and whether that journey in between is long or short.
Today, people of all ages are asking themselves profound questions about how much work they do (if at all), what work they do, and the place of work—physically and psychologically—in their lives. ...
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