The report mentions that 68% of the elderly people strongly want to be re-employed after retirement,
And the reason for choosing to be re-employed is that 46.7% of them are looking for personal and social values!
I just couldn't hold my breath when I saw that statistic.
Nearly half of the elderly who retired and came back out to work actually wanted to realize personal and social values?
After the news was released, many netizens voiced the same questions as I did, and then I found the one with the highest number of likes in the comment section of this news: this netizen's comment reminded me of a widely circulated picture with the caption, "With and Without Pension".
In the middle of the picture, a group dancing in high spirits is a woman with a pension;
In the upper-right corner of the picture, a woman is watching her peers, even those younger than her, dance in the middle of her cleaning job, a stark contrast to her.
Look around us, most of us who are past retirement age and can't go square dancing, can't go fishing, can't go playing mahjong, and choose to keep working, what exactly is the reason?
It is not that the pension is not enough or children still need to help!
Japan has a lot of experience in re-employing the elderly.
Japan's aging population is a very serious problem, and there is a shortage of labor, so it's not uncommon to see the elderly and even the super-elderly rejoining the workforce.
For example, a 76-year-old grandmother works at Starbucks, and a 93-year-old works at McDonald's and has to work the night shift four times a week. Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications data show that as of 2021, the proportion of elderly people aged 65-69 who are still working in Japan is 50.3%, security guards, cleaners, highway toll collectors and so on are all elderly people.
A poll once conducted by Nippon Life Insurance Co showed that 64 percent of respondents said they would like to continue working after retirement based on financial pressures.
The reason behind these inspiring stories of older people coming out to work after retirement is actually that they have no choice but to do so because of inadequate pensions.
Of course some may say: some old people just can't be bothered.
For example, the often-mocked Cantonese landlady, who collects rent on several buildings at home, still leaves early and returns late to sell vegetables at a stall.
We need to understand that active and passive choices are completely different.
I hope we can recognize the importance of saving for retirement early and be prepared.
Wait until you don't worry about your pension after retirement, and then think about whether you want to continue working to fulfill your personal, or social values!
When it comes to saving for retirement, your first thought may be "I have social security", so how much pension do retired seniors get now?
Look at the data
In the first half of this year, the official media is the network in the "further weave the social security safety net" in this article disclosed:
2021 retired employees average pension of 2987 yuan per month, urban and rural residents pension of 179 yuan culture has a period of many young people feel surprised at the work of the course of the work of the 22 years old to participate in the work of the 79 years old is still in the going to work, in his words, "have not rested a day."
He was the director of the Beijing Municipal Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences for more than 10 years. After his retirement, the organization rehired him until 2016. After that, the 73-year-old culture was invited by the Beijing Metropolitan Planning and Design Institute to serve as a consultant until now.
With 57 years of uninterrupted work, Culture says that being busy has become an inertia for him.
Of course, this inertia is driven by a variety of reasons. Culture has always been more interested in doing research, and during his time as director, he often set aside three hours at night to work on projects. After retiring and working again, he has established three principles according to his own ideas: help not to add to the chaos, do research not management, consulting not decision-making.
In his view, the retired old experts can do some of the things they can do, not only can contribute to the experience and wisdom, but also to my health in his old age. He believes that the brain is just like the limbs, the more it moves the slower it degrades.
Culture is an empty-nester, with no partner or children around. He says he can't stay at home and feels very lonely when he is idle. Perhaps also because of this, his concept of time is very strong, what to do in each time period has been planned in advance. /Month. The reasons for continuing to work are similar in different. Recently, a platform released the 2022 Research Report on Retirement and Re-employment of Aging Groups. The report shows that 46.7% of older people return to the job market in search of personal and social value. 19% of job seekers want to give play to their skills and continue to pursue career development. 34.3% of job seekers subsidize their families and increase their income through re-employment to satisfy higher levels of consumer demand.
Competitiveness of the Elderly in Re-employment
Compared with the young people, the elderly re-employment, first of all, face a rather critical question: where is the competitiveness? How much?
Some time ago, China's talent network for the elderly online caused a hot debate, China News Network reporter interviewed a number of employers.
Middle-aged and elderly people interested in learning exchange platform Spring Elm Society, the person in charge of Wang Hongchuan said that they did not specifically recruit retired elderly people as teachers in the beginning, but in the class found that many elderly people are not worse than young people, and even in many areas there are advantages.