Older workers across advanced economies are leaving jobs in a pattern that is “less about individual choice than organizational design” say the founder of a UK consultancy. Employers’ assumptions about performance have not kept pace”, warns Annie Coleman of RealiseLongevity. Modern careers are still built around the idea that effectiveness peaks early. Writing on the website of the Stanford Center for Longevity, she quotes from an array of research that challenges that view. For example while one survey found more than 50% of US workers had been were pushed out of long held jobs before they chose to retire, often through layoffs or restructuring rather than performanc issues, more recent work suggested performance peaks between 5 and 60.
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