Truth, Lies & Work

# retirement

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0:01Microsoft's voluntary retirement programmeAl Elliott: Coming up this week in work Leanne Elliott: Microsoft have just launched a one-time retirement programme targeting employees whose age plus years of service equals 70 or more. They're calling it voluntary, giEP 296 · 28 Apr 2026·news roundup· 0:01–3:1410:03Is Microsoft encouraging older workers to leave?Leanne Elliott: Is Microsoft encouraging older workers to leave? Al Elliott: Yes Leanne Elliott: Yeah, probs. That's what I sawEP 296 · 28 Apr 2026·news roundup· 10:03–19:0739:02Workplace Surgery: Motivating a team nearing retirementLeanne Elliott: Is it a true? Sounding very, very Yorkshire, that. Is it a true? Al Elliott: If you've got a question you want me to put to Leanne, then check out the show notes and send us over. We're always interested,EP 270 · 27 Jan 2026·workplace surgery· 39:02–44:4150:53Retirement, 'gradated' exits, and staying usefulAl Elliott: Yeah Leanne Elliott: By the way, I think it's bad for people as well. I, you know, I think what would happen if I retired completely is I start getting like neurotic about my neighbor's tree overhanging my feEP 156 · 24 Dec 2024·other· 50:53–55:5710:48The Retirement Age DebateLeanne Elliott: Well, I saw something this week. In 2027, which isn't that, isn't that far away now, just a couple of years, uh, we are going to have a record number of Americans about to turn 65. Um, the question is, shEP 109 · 25 Jun 2024·news roundup· 10:48–15:2735:33Rethinking retirement: a gradual transitionmidroll (Phil Agnew, Nudge): Yeah Rory Sutherland: We're creating these organizations which are purely optimized around exploit and have no space left for explore. But you see this absolutely everywhere. The shareholder EP 83 · 21 Mar 2024·panel interview· 35:33–40:16

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