Define: "Unretirement" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"If you unretire as a contractor, charge triple your old hourly rate and flatly refuse to attend any meeting that doesn't involve an active outage."
The trend of retired individuals voluntarily returning to the workforce for social engagement, purpose, or supplemental income.
What does "Unretirement" actually mean?
"Coming back to fight with Jira at age 69 because the cost of groceries destroyed your 401(k) and you still know how the legacy mainframe works."
"Our unretirement program allows seasoned alumni to return on a flexible basis to mentor junior staff."
"Bob's unretirement lasted exactly four days until someone asked him to log his daily tasks in ServiceNow and he walked right back out to his truck."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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