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S\u00e5dan lyder tendensen i et nyt studie, som er gennemf\u00f8rt af lektor p\u00e5 Saxo-Instituttet. ","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Many older employees are choosing to leave the workforce even though they still feel they have a lot to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>This is partly because they are weary of constant workplace changes, concludes a new study published by the Danish interest group for seniors <em>\u00c6ldre Sagen<\/em> (DaneAge Association) and conducted by ethnologist and associate professor Aske Juul Lassen, according to Danish media <a href=\"https:\/\/politiken.dk\/danmark\/oekonomi\/art10326200\/Seniorer-g%C3%A5r-p%C3%A5-tidlig-pension-for-at-slippe-for-organisations%C3%A6ndringer\">Politiken<\/a>. Aske Juul Larsen does research on ageing at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH).<\/p>\n<p>The study is based on qualitative interviews with 14 pensioners conducted by Aske Juul Lassen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbSome of the interviewees had made lists of the changes they had experienced in their workplace over the last ten years. And it could easily amount to ten major and far-reaching changes. It was hard for people to keep up,\u00ab says the associate professor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">The Futures Study<\/p>\n<p>The new study, which consists of 14 qualitative interviews, builds on interest group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeldresagen.dk\/maerkesager-og-resultater\/viden-og-tal\/fremtidsstudiet\/fremtidsstudiet-2021\">\u00c6ldresagen\u2019s so-called futures study<\/a>, where 4,990 Danes aged 50\u201389 completed a questionnaire about their expectations for working life. Around six per cent said in this study that they had chosen to leave the labour market due to organisational changes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He explains that those who retire for this reason tend to have higher-than-average incomes, longer educations, and better health. Moreover, most of the study\u2019s contributors worked in the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>This does not necessarily mean that the trend is more pronounced in the public than in the private sector, Aske Juul Lassen emphasises.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbOverall, there was a tendency for constant workplace changes to result in a loss of meaning for employees in one way or another. When people described specific changes, there was a sense that before one change had been fully implemented, a new one was already underway,\u00ab he says, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThere was never, in other words, any respite that let them get on with their work.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Solidarity in the workplace<\/h3>\n<p>UCPH management cancelled a round of layoffs in the autumn that had previously been announced in connection with the administration reform. Preceding ‘mitigation measures’ had worked so well that <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/planned-university-of-copenhagen-layoffs-now-cancelled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it was no longer necessary to lay off administrative staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 118 employees accepted a voluntary redundancy offer. Several senior staff were among those who chose to leave \u2014 and who spoke with the University Post.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the senior employees I interviewed could easily imagine continuing on the labour market for many more years, but they would have to accept changes that lacked professional justification<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Aske Juul Lassen, associate professor, Saxo Institute<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aske Juul Lassen stresses that he cannot comment on the UCPH administration reform or the reasons why former colleagues chose to leave. He can only point to general dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/a-working-life-chief-warden-clocks-out-after-35-years\/\">A working life: Chief warden clocks out after 35 years<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWith voluntary redundancies, the implication is often that it is older employees who are free to choose to retire. There is also a certain solidarity among older staff, who typically think: Better me than one of the younger ones,\u00ab says Aske Juul Lassen.<\/p>\n<p>He adds, however, that this should not be interpreted as older employees’ lack of adaptability. Rather, it is that many of them have experienced an overwhelming number of changes throughout a long career.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAnd for some of them, the changes just no longer make sense,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<p>The new study suggests that, at many workplaces, one transformation process is barely underway before the next one begins, says the associate professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbMany of the senior employees I interviewed could easily see themselves staying in the labour market for many years to come. But in this case they would have to accept changes that lacked professional justification \u2014 and they simply can\u2019t see themselves doing that,\u00ab says Aske Juul Lassen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/staff-representative-after-cancelled-layoffs-management-should-have-done-many-things-differently\/\">Union representative after cancelled layoffs: \u00bbManagement should have done many things differently\u00ab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get an email with upcoming events and top University of Copenhagen stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":4539,"name":"Working environment","slug":"arbejdsmiljoe-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4539,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":95,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11485,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[{"term_id":5468,"name":"Optional","slug":"optional-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5468,"taxonomy":"translation_priority","description":"","parent":0,"count":671,"filter":"raw"}]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/istock2204781090.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175405"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175616,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175405\/revisions\/175616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}