Kat Jennings

By 2024, professionals fifty-five years old and older will represent 25% of the United States workforce, with the fastest annual growth rates among those over sixty-five. A majority of these baby boomers want to continue to work long after sixty-five. Through TaxConnections retained executive search services division, we often speak to tax executives in their late fifties and early sixties who are doing an outstanding job for their organizations and love the work they do. In fact, I know of many extraordinarily talented tax executives over seventy-five who are doing an incredible job mitigating risk for organizations. A tax executive over seventy-seven recently shared with me that his CEO called him into the office recently and as he entered the room he was worried about being terminated. Instead the tax executive was given a big raise along with a bonus and appreciation for his work. Encounters like this do happen in organizations today. They happen in organizations with executives who value and respect what years of experience brings.

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