Longevity Workforce Outlook

Americans are living longer, but much of today’s public conversation around longevity focuses narrowly on retirement timing and savings accumulation. This framing overlooks a deeper structural issue: workers cannot save for longer lives if they cannot consistently access jobs, training, advancement, and economic mobility across extended careers. And most workforce studies continue to focus on Gen Z and Millennial workers, with very little data available on how workforce issues are impacting older workers.

CWI is working to change this situation by inserting ‘work’ into the national conversation on longevity.

CWI commissioned Ipsos to conduct a first-of-its-kind national survey of U.S. adults ages 18–75, looking at how access to training and jobs shapes Americans’ long-term financial security as they age. Among other findings, the survey reveals a clear disconnect between how older workers are perceived and what they are capable of and doing. And this disconnect is holding back older worker and employers from success.

Watch the clip below for a sneak peak of the survey results.

Come back September 14th for the release of the full results, interviews, and other resources about this important data and its implications.