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What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

What we asked people was, at this point in their lives, are they actively building, maintaining, or depleting their tangible and intangible assets? Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Over 10,000 people completed it. What might this look like?

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How Work Will Change When Most of Us Live to 100

Harvard Business Review

Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges. Take, for instance, the age at which people make commitments such as buying a house, getting married, having children, or starting a career. But the changes go further than that.