On retiring
Plus while many people are helatlhy at 65 they may not be at 77, meaing those 12 years of extra work will be offset by more "occasional" sick days-Projects and jobs take longer to complete becase a member of the team of off sick today.
More long term sick employees, recurrent health problems caused by age, Heart, Arthritis, Back, Mobility problems putting a extra strain on the NHS and sick/incapacity payments.
The slowing down of the job/training/promotions ladder due to it being top heavy of older employees.
When this country was a manufactuing country, then there was a element of natural selction as people got older, There were mining accidents, accidents in the workplace and factory floor and as was often the case people dropped dead at 67 because their lungs were full of abestos/coal dust/dyes. That side of industy has all but dissapeared now. We are country whos biggest industry is infastructure. That needs to be adressed. We can't compete as a manufacturing country anymore, but maybe we should promote our sciences and cutting edge technoighy more, both as a profitable enterprise and as a means of empolyment.
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:44, Reply)