New research from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College finds that since ChatGPT launched, older workers in AI-exposed jobs like programming and accounting are leaving work faster, and landing in unemployment, not retirement. That is a different problem than voluntary attrition. It is an involuntary, unplanned exit for exactly the population most retirement benefits assume gets to leave on their own timeline. Here is what the data shows, and what HR should do a

When a long-tenured employee retires without a plan, HR pays for it before the exit date: disengaged final months, rushed knowledge transfers, and departures delayed because employees aren't ready to leave. Retirement coaching as an employee benefit closes the gap that financial wellness programs and EAPs don't cover. It's structured 1:1 support for the human side of the transition, and it's what helps long-tenured employees leave on time, leave well, and leave something behi