COVID-19 – The Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Financially Fragile and Aging Societies

The financial fragility of households and the rising proportion of people becoming obese calls for intensified efforts, both by individuals and employers to create financial buffers and keep on investing in health.

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October 21, 2020

How Gen Z & Young Millennials Are Redefining Life Stages, Markets & Retirement For Everyone

And, while living with mom and dad well past legal drinking age may not be “terrible,” staying home impacts the lives of both young adults and their parents.

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October 14, 2020

How COVID-19’s 168-Hour Workweek Is Changing Work In Retirement

Large swaths of the workforce were forced to work from home. Even after offices reopen, the idea of flexible work has become more far more flexible, making the question of retirement for many less about when to stop work, but instead how much do you want to work?

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Women’s Career Trajectories Can Be a Model for an Aging Workforce

Managers and organizations will need to be skilled at supporting both men and women through the reshaping and pacing of careers that stretch over 50 years.

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Workplace Ageism: It’s Normal but not Ok

Podcast on ageism in employment practices, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting unemployment on older people, especially women and BIPOC.

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October 9, 2020

61% of Women are Looking to Change Careers amid COVID-19 ― Here’s How to do it SUCCESSFULLY

Before COVID-19, women in their 40s and 50s faced hurdles if they wanted to make substantial career changes. Now during the pandemic, the hurdles are even higher.

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Ageism Is Rampant in COVID-19 Era

Employment among older workers is about 15 percentage points lower than it was in February, while the rate for all workers between the ages of 21 and 60 is about 10 points below February’s total.

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October 4, 2020

For Whom the Pandemic Tolls: A Person-Centric Analysis of Older Workers

We offer a worker-centric perspective on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for the aging workforce.

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September 30, 2020

COVID-19 and its Implications for Research on Work Ability

We argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered a number of possible gaps in our understanding of the work ability concept itself, its antecedents, and outcomes.

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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Older Workers: The Role of Self-Regulation and Organizations

In this commentary, I will take a more positive perspective on older workers and discuss the self-regulation strategies that older workers engage in and how organizations can stimulate this

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