Unit of Health Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Gerontology Research Center, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2022 Jul;95(5):1157-1166. doi: 10.1007/s00420-021-01826-4. Epub 2022 Jan 7.
To study the workers' perception of the quality of work community and its association with intention to retire early, separately among women and men working in Finnish postal service.
A questionnaire survey was sent to all Finnish postal services employees aged ≥ 50 years in 2016 and 44% (n = 2096) replied to the survey (mean age 56.3, 40% women). Employee's intention to retire before statutory retirement was measured on a scale of 1-5 and dichotomized. The quality of work community was defined by four composite variables: equality at work, flexibility at work, supportive work environment and health or other reason and trichotomized by their tercile values. Odds ratio (ORs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations of quality of work community with intention to retire were calculated separately for men and women using log binomial regression models adjusted for potential confounders.
About one-third of respondents intended to retire early with no significant gender difference in retirement intention. Low equality at work (women OR 2.77, 95% CI 1.60-4.81; men 2.84, 1.80-4.48) and low flexibility at work (women 3.30, 1.94-5.60; men 2.91, 1.88-4.50) was associated with higher likelihood of intention to retire. Among women intention to retire was found less likely due to low supportive work environment (0.52, 0.31-0.89) and among men due to intermediate health or other reason (0.65, 043-0.98).
The results highlight the importance of the quality of work community as well as the promotion of work-related health in order to encourage employees to remain at workforce for longer.
分别研究女性和男性芬兰邮政员工对工作社区质量的感知及其与提前退休意愿的关系。
2016 年，向所有年龄≥50 岁的芬兰邮政服务员工发送问卷调查，其中 44%（n=2096）人回复了调查（平均年龄 56.3 岁，40%为女性）。员工提前退休的意愿通过 1-5 分制进行衡量，并分为二分变量。工作社区质量由四个综合变量定义：工作中的平等、工作中的灵活性、支持性工作环境以及健康或其他原因，并根据其三等分值进行三分变量分类。使用对数二项式回归模型分别对男性和女性进行调整，以控制潜在混杂因素后，计算工作社区质量与提前退休意愿之间关联的比值比（OR）及其 95%置信区间（CI）。
约有三分之一的受访者有提前退休的意向，且男女提前退休的意愿无显著差异。工作中平等程度低（女性 OR 2.77，95%CI 1.60-4.81；男性 2.84，1.80-4.48）和工作中灵活性低（女性 3.30，1.94-5.60；男性 2.91，1.88-4.50）与提前退休意愿的可能性增加有关。对于女性，由于支持性工作环境低（0.52，0.31-0.89），提前退休的意愿较低，而对于男性，由于中间的健康或其他原因（0.65，0.43-0.98）提前退休的意愿较低。
结果强调了工作社区质量以及促进与工作相关的健康的重要性，以鼓励员工在劳动力中保持更长时间。
