“We stopped needing to work in our 30s”

Mar 7, 2019 | In the news

I spend a lot of time reassuring clients that, yes, they can afford to retire and that once they do, they won’t know how they had time to go to work. When I was 20-something, I set up a pension with a retirement age of 50 (yes, I know, kids, but I needed the commission at the time!). When I got to 50, I couldn’t think of anything worse than retiring. Now I’m just past, I hate the thought spending my time busy-bodying around the village complaining about dog poo and organising plant sales, as most here seem to do. And now we hear that retiring at 30, yes, 30 is becoming a thing in America! No wonder they’re all so fat.

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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.