How Retirement Changes Your Identity
How Retirement Changes Your Identity  
Podcast: HBR IdeaCast
Published On: Tue Jan 15 2019
Description: Teresa Amabile, professor at Harvard Business School, is approaching her own retirement by researching how ending your work career affects your sense of self. She says important psychological shifts take place leading up to, and during, retirement. That holds especially true for workers who identify strongly with their job and organization. Amabile and her fellow researchers have identified two main processes that retirees go through: life restructuring and identity bridging.