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Survey: Every fourth wants to retire prematurely
Working up to the 65th or even 67th birthday? Many would like to avoid this. The money in particular plays an important role in this.
Despite a shortage of skilled workers and impending discounts on the pension, many employees would like to retire prematurely. According to a representative survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the car supplier Continental, more than every fourth (27 percent) wants to leave working life prematurely. 62 percent of the respondents stated that they only wanted to retire when the retirement age was reached. 11 percent did not provide any information.
In January, the YouGov Institute asked 2,000 people aged 18 to 67 on their pension plans. As the most important set screw to keep employees longer in the job, the remuneration showed. 51 percent of those surveyed said that they could most likely motivate them to work beyond the retirement they planned. 38 percent wanted more flexible working hours, 34 percent tax benefits, 29 percent more vacation and leisure.
“We have to come to a completely different agility in the labor market that people are used according to their needs, skills and skills,” said Conti head of staff Ariane Reinhart. After all, the good specialists are the most important resource in Germany. “How do we use this so that we can secure our welfare state and our prosperity? That is the big task.”
Reinhart: “We cannot distribute gifts”
Reinhart also sees urgent need for action when pension. “We also have to make ourselves honest. We cannot distribute gifts, that has to be paid for.” The assertion that the pension is certain, in view of the demographic change, does not help. After all, fewer and fewer contributors would have to supply more and more pensioners. “The fact that this does not work mathematically is obvious. There is a bit of a lack of the meaning of urgency.”
Almost half of the respondents (48 percent) stated that, in addition to the statutory pension, company pension schemes, 63 percent provide privately. The idea of securing part of the statutory pension via stocks, especially favored by the FDP, found 50 percent good. 27 percent rejected this.
dpa
Source: Stern
