Three ways businesses can prepare as people choose to work longer

Beyond retirement age

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'Businesses need to prepare for re-hire-ment, not retirement,' writes Bupa's Alaana Linney

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game producer famed for creating Nintendo's Mario character. He is also a 67-year-old business leader showing no interest in retirement. And he's not alone. Take Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour; a healthy 70-year-old who is refusing to answer questions about her retirement plans.  Contrary to the belief that senior business people in high profile roles retire at 40, a new trend is emerging. Driven by a desire to work, senior leaders at the top of their game are seeing retirement as an opportunity to rehire rather than retire.  A recent study1 b...

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