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The COVID-19 pandemic is having divergent impacts on retirement timing — in some cases squeezing out older workers earlier than they expected through involuntary retirement while causing others to delay their voluntary retirement plans.
Whether voluntary or involuntary, the number of Baby Boomers who left the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic has accelerated, according to an analysis of monthly labor force data published by Pew Research Center.
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