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Sajia Ferdous, Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Queen's Business School, Queen's University Belfast

Retirement as we know it is ending – it’s time to rethink the idea of working age

'Working age' as a measure fails to take in the complexities of people's lives. Dragana Gordic/Shutterstock

When do you think you’ll retire? Aged 65? Younger, if you’re lucky? Maybe older if you’re unlucky – or if you’re young right now?

Someone from a high-income country starting their first job can expect to retire on average two years later than today’s pensioners. And in some countries the retirement age will be much higher. Denmark is planning on raising its pension age to 74 by 2070.

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