Farewell to youthful delusions!

摘要

In the "Industrieanzeiger" (Industrial Advertiser) recently the following provocative headline was to be seen: "The greyheads are on the advance". In this article it was concerned with the early retirement of employees and the currently hotly discussed theme of the length of the working life. Before the background of the demoscopic development, rethinking is once more called for. The Berlin Prognos GmbH estimates that in Germany, by the year 2020, the percentage of employees between the ages of 20 and 49 years will be reduced by 5 million and, in contrast with this, the proportion of 50 to 64 year-olds will increase by the same number.