You’ve put in your years with the company and now you’re looking forward to retirement… or are you? For many, the thought of retirement brings on a whole other host of issues to consider.

• What will you do after retirement?
• What impact will retirement have on your social life?
• How will your relationship with your spouse/partner change?
• Will you have enough money to live in the way you are accustomed to living?
• Do you have other interests/hobbies to pursue?
• Should you consider volunteering?
• Are you interested in a second career?
• What does “wellness” have to do with retirement?
• Will you be happy as a retired person?

Retirement Coaching for Employees

Working with a certified retirement coach can help employees assess retirement preparedness. Taking work-life wellness to another level, Ease@Work began offering retirement coaching in 2008 as an extended benefit of our employee assistance program (EAP).  Employees can access up to three hours of retirement coaching in the same way that they would access a counselor.

“We anticipated the need for retirement coaching based on the knowledge that the work force and employers, would be entering an unprecedented wave of retiring individuals with the baby boom generation,” said Patrick Gaul, Ease@Work Account Executive. “As an EAP with focus on the wellness of the organization as a whole, we felt that access to an expert was essential as employees considered this next stage of their lives and as management contemplates how to prepare for this turnover.”

The program also offers employers and their HR professionals guidance regarding managing the new challenges of high volume retirement, such as succession planning and transfer of knowledge.