Late Shift: The Death of Retirement

by RichardTomlinson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $10.12

  As Britain's first age discrimination law comes into force, Richard Tomlinson reports from the corporate frontline on the gap between the need of increasing numbers of older people to extend their careers, and a prevailing business culture where companies insist that no employee has the right to carry on working after 65. This gap - and how to close it - is the subject of Late Shift: the Death of Retirement , which captures a critical moment in British corporate life as the country's pension crisis deepens. Drawing on more than 100 interviews, the book discusses whether the private sector can adapt to an ageing workforce. Late Shift is driven by the voices of those most affected by the outcome: financially stretched older blue-collar workers whose retirement is an ever-receding horizon; self-employed people in their fifties and sixties who have started businesses at a time when many of their peers are winding down; and senior executives who are wrestling (or not) with the implications of the new age law. Award-winning business journalist and author Richard Tomlinson is uniquely qualified to write Late Shift .