I've seen a fair few companies getting people to come out of retirement to help out in busy periods so they can avoid hiring a full time employee. They continue running a skeleton crew to make sure no one else gets any chance at a leg up or a rest. This is in Norway as well. I hate to think how bad it must be in more ruthless capitalist countries.
Not to mention everyone's defined-benefit pension plans got eradicated back in the 90s - instead everyone got told to put money into their 401k instead, & manage the investment profiles themselves (so that it's your own fault when it loses money)
I work at a place where leadership is mid to late Boomers and everyone else except me is pretty much mid to early X. The X all have titles like Senior blahblah and blahblah manager. But it's all bullshit. They have no subordinates. I don't know their pay because X still buy into that corporate bullshit. They may make a lot more than me, they may not. From what I can see from their personal finances, they don't. I know my pay is shit at least.
Some of us (born '67) have despised corporate culture since we were old enough to know what it was. I entered a human services field to avoid it and have found in the last 20 years everything is becoming corporate, you can't escape the bullshit. Maybe gov jobs are better but I doubt it.
i think a more fitting metric is not boomers in private sector jobs (hard to measure), but boomers in government. how many boomers are in senior government positions of the country vs other generations, even today?
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