Should you have to take retirement at a certain age?

Well i dont think that your point is correct as if you dont have any age limit for workers then there would be no scope fr new comers and the existing members would never wish to get out of their job.... it may be good for an individual but for an organisation/company itsnot at all recommended.... may be after retiring from the company an individual can do his own work as an self owned enterprenor...

I think that people are different from each other. I know that my mom wanted to stay working in the library however she had to take her retirement at age 60 years old. She would have been happy to stay working at the library for another 10 years or so. I therefore think that a man or a lady should be able to choose to take retirement at age 60 to 80 years old. Then that would make each man and lady happy. I know that young people wish to get jobs that are age 16, 17, 18, 20 or older. It is not good for a person to work hard until age 60 or 65 then sit around doing nothing. That would be bad for their health. I have many years to go until I take my retirement and it would be lovely for me to choose when I take it.

I agree with you in a sense that you should work as long as you feel strong enough and no one should dictate when you should stop working .However I do believe that older folks should make way for younger people not that they should be excluded from from the workplace but coexist .Youth and experience working side by side like in Japan

I don't think 60 or 65 is the right age for retirement. It should be earlier than this one. Its a fact that people do have more medical problems at this age and can no longer enjoy the fruits of their labor. Fifty would be more appropriate for me.

I'd say that the perfect retirement age would be about 60, because then i feel you are guaranteed at least 10 years to enjoy yourself before your health starts to fail from old age. You can enjoy spending your money on holidays and such and enjoy seeing your grandchildren and children, maybe even great grand children if your lucky enough :D

B/C that's how they make money & ordinary people don't Noone should HAVE yo retire. In todays world most people cant survive after retirement

I think it should be a personal choice also. Some people have poor health and retiring at age 65 or earlier here in the US is right for them as it's difficult to keep working. However, many people are still quite active and able and want to work past 65 and they should be able to. I read just a couple weeks ago about a surgeon that is past 90 years old and still quite active mentally and physically - he still performs surgeries a few times a week.

I know that a lot of people don't really want to retire because they enjoy their jobs. There are many that can't afford to retire because their funds have been wiped out by the recent collapse. There are laws that say you have to access some retirement funds when you are a certain age and laws that restrict your earnings if you're collecting Social Security. I feel that these laws are unfair. True, if all the seniors quit working there would be a few more jobs for younger people but I think that most seniors are working part time anyway and their jobs would not provide a living wage for a younger person. It should be up to the individual when they retire and they should have unrestricted control of their money.

It's interesting because both my parents are in there mid 70's yet they still run their own business and for the most do it out of enjoyment rather than a need to. I actually wonder whether they would still be active or even around if they had been employed by someone and forced to retire before they were ready. Whilst I can see the point of view that when people retire it makes room for younger people to take over their jobs. But I think for some the knock on effect of forced retirement is far too costly and if someone wants to work on and is capable of doing the job to a professional lesson then they should be allowed to.

I don't think that anyone should have to retire as long as they are capable of coming in every day and performing the job to the company's standards. I've been retired for two years. From the time that I started to work, I always wanted to retire at age 55. DH worked until he was 59 and I worked until I was 60. Our retirement was a personal choice. We both wanted to retire while we were still healthy and able to do the things that we wanted to do with the rest of our lives. DH go seriously ill 6 months before he turned 65 and I've never regretted having the two years of retirement with both of us having the ability to do the things that we wanted to do. DH is recovering but won't have all of the capabilities that he had before his illness. We'll still do the things that we planned with a slight bit of modification.

well I do agree to a certain extent but also think that who would want to work till they are in a box I know I only work so that I can retire at 40 that's my goal and it is going to happen he he he I can see the point of getting bored when you have retired and miss the daily routine, Though if you have heard the saying "we work to live, not live to work", there has got to be something else in life than work, but yeah I do think it should be up to the individual not the goverment. But the more older people work the less energy we have coming into employment from the younger workers and sometimes a bit of youth can be a great injection into a company.

Yes retirement has to be a personal choice and you have absolutely putforth a very valuable and valid pont. In my country the age of the current prime minister is 78 and I really wonder what makes him to be in the post even now wheras the retirement age for the government servants in my country is 60( men and women included). This is one thing that has to be really questioned. The CEO's continue even at the age of 70's and it really makes me wonder that why should the employees alone retire at 60. Well there can be no perfect answers for these kind of questions.