"Employers have long developed ad hoc arrangements with some older workers who, approaching the end of their careers, are looking to phase into retirement instead of making an abrupt break.... Less clear is whether employers are willing to make such arrangements more widely available to workers throughout their organizations. A study of 14,400 active and 1,600 retired employees ... found that: 55 percent of employees age 55 and older want to retire gradually. Only 27 percent say that their employers offer the ability to wind down by shifting to part-time work as they age."  MORE >>