45% of Workers Plan to Ease Into Retirement, and Here's Why You May Want to Do the Same

For some people, the transition from working to retirement is effectively a hard stop -- one day you're plugging away for eight hours at your desk, the next day you're a person of leisure whose days are completely devoid of job-related obligations.

It's a route many workers expect to take, and one that can be satisfying in its own right -- work hard up until you can no longer take it, and then retire and enjoy your freedom. But it doesn't make sense for everyone, especially those people who like their jobs, or like having a social outlet through work, but are reaching an age when holding down a full-time job is getting to be too much. If that's the situation you're in, a phased transition into retirement may be a better solution, and if so, you're in good company.

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