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Time to rethink our ageist attitudes

1 min read The Early Years Blog
What happens when a crisis just becomes the way we live? It starts to describe the staffing shortage situation. It would seem after Covid thousands of people never returned to work. They simply vanished!
June O’Sullivan in chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation. Picture: LEYF
June O’Sullivan in chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation. Picture: LEYF

Every sector is struggling and young people who are entering the workforce are very unprepared. They are often unable to balance their personal needs with that of work so we are squeezing the existing workforce from both ends and they are feeling crushed. 

My most recent podcast guest, Stuart Lewis, chief executive of Rest Less, began to think about another response after conversations with his dad about the length of retirement.  He noted that his dad would have spent 25 years in retirement which is enough time to rethink a career. I totally understood that because my own Dad only stopped driving his taxi aged 75 and probably would have gone on longer but he had to care for my mother. 

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