As the great bulge of babies born after World War II have moved through the life course, the world has changed to suit them and their needs. But just as the latest generations of Zoomers and Millennials have begun to outnumber the Baby Boomers, and are taking over as the politically dominant age group, the Boomers have caused one last change: retirement has become more a matter of personal preference, with many choosing to keep working. In the years before the first of the Boomers began reaching normal retirement age in the early 2010s, the big trend was to early retirement. Employers were often keen to get rid of older workers, giving them redundancy payouts sufficient to let them retire before reaching age-pension age. Early retirement was great if you could wangle it somehow.