Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations.

About 41% of Gen Z and 44% of millennials — those who are currently between 27 and 42 years old — are significantly more likely to want to do some form of paid work during retirement.

This increasing preference for a lifelong income, could perhaps make the act of “retiring” obsolete.

Although younger workers don’t intend to stop working, there is still an effort to beef up their retirement savings.

It’s ok! Don’t ever retire! Just work until you die, preferably not at work, where we’d have to deal with the removal of your corpse.

  • bluGill
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    -168 months ago

    Historically no young generation has saved a lot. It is when you get older you realize how much it matters.

    • squiblet
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      108 months ago

      People who grew up in the Great Depression did. Silent generation remembers that…

      • drphungky
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        48 months ago

        Also Millennials are (historically) huge savers from living through multiple downturns.