More planning needed on pension reform

There can be unexpected things in government reports. Did you know, for example, that car manufacturer BMW redesigned some of its assembly lines to make them ‘senior’-friendly?

Apparently they did things like replacing rubber flooring with wooden flooring to allow less strain on older joints when swivelling in work, and provided ergonomic chairs/tables that allowed work to continue whilst the older employee was sitting down for periods.

This BMW anecdote featured in a government report titled ‘Report of the Interdepartmental Group on Fuller Working Lives’, published the other week by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.