Phased Retirement

This 'phased retirement' blog is a service of the nonprofit Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs (CAE). We use 'phased retirement' to mean that older workers and their employers can set up a plan for the employee to gradually shift from full time to part time status while giving the employee a chance to launch their own small enterprise - potentially an enterprise connected to their recent employer. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) uses this definition: "Phased Retirement is a human resources tool that allows full-time employees to work part-time schedules while beginning to draw retirement benefits. This new tool will allow managers to better provide unique mentoring opportunities for employees while increasing access to the decades of institutional knowledge and experience that retirees can provide." Link to this OPM definition and federal research is below We will use this blog to post research and commen...