by dankeelan | Sep 13, 2023 | Age, Featured
Sometimes Fred Strnisa thinks about retirement. When he sees familiar names in the obituaries, or when the winter wind whips his upstate New York home, Strnisa, 81, wonders if maybe it’s time for him to stop working as a professor of semiconductor manufacturing and...
by dankeelan | Aug 1, 2023 | Age, Retirement
I know several people in their late 50s who aren’t ready to retire but are ready to pull back on their 40-plus-hour-a-week schedules. What is the best way to request moving from full to part time without risking management deciding it would be best to say “no” and let...
by dankeelan | Jul 25, 2023 | Age, Entrepreneurs, Featured
A recent survey conducted by GOBankingRates reveals that a remarkable 51% of 18- to 24-year-olds express their desire to embark on an entrepreneurial journey, with an impressive 14% already taking the leap into the world of business ownership — higher percentages than...
by dankeelan | Jul 18, 2023 | Age, Future of Work
More than three years since the start of the pandemic, employment prospects for 15-24 year olds have become even more challenging, as they face multiple disruptive trends such as the acceleration of digitalization and low unemployment in many economies. For the...
by dankeelan | May 16, 2023 | Age, Featured, Gig Workers, Retirement
Russ Eanes was burning out at his job, and he had just hit 60, but he wasn’t ready to retire. A former minister in the Mennonite church, he had worked for a decade as an executive at a religious-book publisher but found himself in the unhappy role of helping to shrink...
by dankeelan | May 2, 2023 | Age, Featured, Robots
A robot takeover has long been the stuff of science fiction, but digitalization could be key in solving Germany’s labor shortage crisis, as its population ages. A record 45.9 million people were employed by Europe’s largest economy in the fourth...
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