Are the Quality of Organizational Changes Associated with Expected Retirement-Age Among Senior Employees?

Objective: Major organizational changes may be associated with both positive and negative uncertainty in working life. This study described the prevalence of organizational changes (reorganizations or round of layoffs) within different job functions in Denmark and investigated whether quality of the implementation process (measured as "information", "involvement" and "consent") was associated with employees' expectations regarding retirement age.

Methods: A representative sample of older Danish employees ≥ 50 years (n = 12,269) replied to a questionnaire survey in 2020.

Expected reasons for leaving the labour market and loss of paid employment among older workers: prospective cohort study.

Background: Surveying expected reasons for retirement may be a useful strategy to maintain labor market affiliation. The aim was to investigate the prospective association between self-reported expected reasons for leaving the labour market and subsequent loss of paid employment before the state pension age among older workers.

Methods: The prospective risk of loss of paid employment before the official state pension age was estimated from expected reasons for leaving the labour market among 10,320 currently employed older workers (50-63 years) from the SeniorWorkingLife study.

New Technology and Loss of Paid Employment among Older Workers: Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: This study investigates the association between the implementation of new technology in the workplace and the subsequent loss of paid employment among older workers.

Methods: We estimated the prospective risk of loss of paid employment (register-based) from questions on new technology among 10,320 older workers (≥50 years). To investigate potential differences between work types, analyses were stratified by job function: (1) work with symbols (office, administration, analysis, IT), (2) work with people (people, service, care), (3) work in the field of production (processing, producing or moving things).

Night-shift work and psychiatric treatment. A follow-up study among employees in Denmark.

Objectives: We aimed to test the hypotheses that night-shift work is associated with an increased incidence of (i) redeemed prescriptions for psychotropic medicine and (ii) psychiatric hospital treatment due to mood, anxiety or stress-related disease. Moreover, we aimed to assess whether (iii) the effect of night-shift work on the rates of antidepressants differs from the effects on the rates of anxiolytics and (iv) the association between night-shift work and psychotropic medicine is affected by long working hours.

Methods: Full-time employees who participated in the Danish Labor Force Survey sometime in the period 2000-2013 (N=131 321) were followed for up to five years in national registers for redeemed prescriptions and psychiatric hospital treatment.

Combined Syngas and Hydrogen Production using Gas Switching Technology.

This paper focuses on the experimental demonstration of a three-stage GST (gas switching technology) process (fuel, steam/CO, and air stages) for syngas production from methane in the fuel stage and H/CO production in the steam/CO stage using a lanthanum-based oxygen carrier (LaSrFeAlO). Experiments were performed at temperatures between 750-950 °C and pressures up to 5 bar. The results show that the oxygen carrier exhibits high selectivity to oxidizing methane to syngas at the fuel stage with improved process performance with increasing temperature although carbon deposition could not be avoided.