Four in 10 adults have not thought about retirement

19 April 2026

Four in 10 adults (38%) have barely thought about retirement, despite growing evidence that insufficient planning is forcing people to delay leaving work, new research from Skipton Building Society has shown. Skipton’s research, carried out among 2,000 working adults, found that ‘retirement denial’ spans generations, with 61% of Gen Z saying they haven’t seriously...