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 workers across the full spectrum of our 5-generation workforce.

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 Outlook 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.