Summary
Younger generations are embracing “micro-retirements,” short sabbaticals or lifestyle shifts, to combat burnout and improve work-life balance.
This trend is fueled by pandemic-related stress, declining workplace flexibility, and increased burnout reports.
Millennials and Gen Z, facing financial and mental health pressures, are prioritizing their well-being, even at the expense of promotions, as they reject the traditional career model of working until age 65.
Meanwhile, older generations like boomers and Gen X struggle to retire due to financial insecurity and rising costs, with many “unretiring” to stretch limited savings.
To be fair, at least they don’t highjack your copy/paste to tell you that copying and pasting is breaking their licensing terms like the Financial Times did with me earlier today when I was just trying to quote one sentence from the article.
But yeah, places like FT and Fortune are not where people should be getting their information on economics and wealth because they only serve to prop up this broken fucking system.
On fire fox click in the top right corner for options, there should be something similar to “display page contents” or “text only mode”
Id like to see them stop you from copying that