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The Shorter Working Life: Implementation Outline

Institutional Pathways for Reducing Required Lifetime Labor

A companion implementation paper to The Shorter Working Life framework, outlining how required lifetime labor could begin to contract through existing retirement systems. It centers phased and partial retirement as the bridge between full-time work and post-work life, then maps the transition model, implementation sequence, administrative pathways, safeguards, and early signals of institutional change.

Published

April 25, 2026

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The Shorter Working Life

A research program exploring how productivity gains, retirement modernization, and institutional adaptation could reduce required lifetime labor.

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