Retirement a Bore for Some

Retirementjobs.com and Simply Hired recently teamed up to offer job search for those who are 50+ years old. According to the Retirement Jobs web site, there is a change taking place in the U.S. workforce:

The change, possibly the largest since women went to work en masse in the 1970’s, is spurred by several factors. Among them: population shifts that have baby boomers turning age 60 amidst a dwindling supply of younger workers, health changes that have people living longer than ever, a new definition of retirement that includes a desire to stay active or a need to remain gainfully employed, and new research confirming what many may have known all along — that, on top of experience, older workers bring valuable traits such as lower turnover, greater dependability, a stronger work ethic, and flexibility over work schedule and pay.

Perhaps even more interesting is that the move by Simply Hired, which has become the official job search of MySpace and now the de facto job search site for baby boomers, means that the job aggregator is now effectively capturing the bookends of the labor market.

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