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Define: "Soft Retirement"
What HR thinks it means:
A phased transition into retirement where senior employees reduce their hours and delegate routine tasks to automated systems.
What does "Soft Retirement" actually mean?
"Collecting a six-figure Director salary while working two days a week and letting an AI agent silently reply to all your emails."
Use it in a meeting:
"Gary has been in soft retirement since January. I'm pretty sure I've been arguing with a customized bot on Teams for the last month."
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