Older workers are sticking around and that is no bad thing
Many older people are keen to continue working either because they enjoy what they are doing or they need the money. Photograph: iStock
This, alas, is rubbish. Ageism is rife in the workplace, assuming older employees can hang on to a job at all. This is one reason I have been cheered by the number of octogenarians I’ve come across recently who are not only working but insist they have no plans to retire. Others are lining up to join them. “While I love it I’ll keep doing it, definitely,” the 66-year-old co-founder of the Zoe personalised nutrition programme Prof Tim Spector recently told a writer who had asked if he would keep working another 20 years.
And if you are in your 20s and reading this thinking you are never going to have a career if all these ageing job-hoggers hang around into their 80s fear not. Only 13,700 people aged 80 or older were estimated to be in full-time work in the UK last year. That is a piffling 0.06 per cent of all full-time workers – even if it is up from the 0.04 per cent a decade earlier.
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