Randstad: HR heading toward 'skills crisis' as workers pressured into retiring

87% of HR professionals feel pressured into leaving work once they reach state pension age, which risks creating a “skills crisis in the profession”.

That is according to the latest research from Randstad. The recruitment agency has polled HR workers in the UK and found that 47% of them plan to retire early.

Sally Cleary, Managing Director of Randstad In-House Services, warns: “The large number of UK workers who will reach pension age over the next few years, combined with a feeling among many in HR that they are no longer wanted past pension age, could create a skills crisis in the profession.”

She points at a recent study conducted by the Pensions Minister, which showed that the number of UK workers between the age of 50 to state pension age will have risen to 13.8 million by 2022. The same study revealed that the number of workers between the ages of 16 and 49 would have been reduced by 700,000.