Booths supermarkets prepares older workers for retirement

Supermarket chain Booths has addressed the issue of variable retirement ages for staff by introducing a “life audit” pre-retirement course for staff aged 55 and older.

The retailer says it prizes employees in their seventies, and even eighties, but also recognises there is a “younger, fitter and more forward-thinking” generation of pre-retirees that need support.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School