“Fire savers: We’re going to retire at 40. Here’s how”

Nov 2, 2021 | In the news

My first pension had a retirement age of 50, and the talk then was of the lives of leisure our generation would later lead. Many of us are still working well past 50, and most of our kids are likely to carry on into their 70s. ‘Super Savers’, however, are apparently a thing, living in penury now for the promise of a leisure, travel and choices at 40+. All very well, but life, and sometime death or divorce, have a habit of getting in the way. You never, alas, know when the best years of your life may be; so a bit of both is best, says this financial adviser.

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“The working-from-home illusion fades”

Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.