Highly retirement ! Agirc-Arrco organizes personalized telephone interviews on employee retirement until the end of the week. The switchboard explodes: More than 12,000 calls! Younger employees worried about their retirement, who fear being laid off. Who calls ? What are the questions? How has the Covid-19 changed the interrogations? Retirement is seen as a liberation from the instability of the working world, but also something complicated!
As of Monday evening, 80% of the available slots were already booked. Of course, with the Covid-19, these interviews are carried out, not face to face, but by telephone. We have noticed, since the beginning of the week, that it is younger employees than usual who are looking for information on their retirement… Why? Because with the crisis, some people are worried about losing their jobs ... and others are wondering about the consequences of partial unemployment on the retirement age.
How do French people perceive retirement?
Like a "Liberation"? Or rather, like a "funeral"? France is divided in two. In opinion polls, you have half who say they want to retire as soon as possible ... And the other half, who says they are ready to extend the activity a little. In fact, it depends on how well you are at work. And contrary to what one might think, with the epidemic… the camp of those who are “well at work” has rather increased… why? Because for many, telecommuting is a more pleasant way of working: No transport. No little chef who watches over you constantly. But, beware, All French people want to succeed in their retirement… Hence the interest of these meetings. It is the demographer Hervé le Bras, who has this formula (borrowed from Marcel Gauchet) Retirement he says, it is the "socialist moment of life": We have time, money and no boss !