Retirement planning | Helping your people to plan for a life after work

By David Pinner, Employee Benefits Consultant

According to the Office for National Statistics the number of people still working in their 70’s nearly doubled between 2009 and 2019 to just under half a million. This equates to one in twelve of those aged 70-80.

For most people though, retirement is a given, when considering the stress of working day after day, year after year, and the toll it will take on mind and body. For many, retirement is the finish line at the end of the rat race - the feeling of relief from no longer being dependent upon work to fund the lifestyle you want to live.

Within most organisations, there is a cohort of employees who are approaching retirement. This can be stressful time, surprisingly, as they transition from the previous four decades of a predictable routine into the relative uncertainty of a life after work.