{"id":242097,"date":"2025-07-06T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242097\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:14:11","slug":"twenties-30s-40s-or-50s-is-there-an-optimal-age-to-take-voluntary-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242097\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenties, 30s, 40s or 50s \u2013 Is there an \u2018optimal\u2019 age to take voluntary redundancy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Experts weigh up the implications of leaving your job in return for a lump sum<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"If you\u2019re in your 30s, happy in your role, and there\u2019s scope for long-term growth, don\u2019t opt for voluntary redundancy. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/23a6c1b8-01cf-4655-b84f-b0ffe5aa70f0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">If you\u2019re in your 30s, happy in your role, and there\u2019s scope for long-term growth, don\u2019t opt for voluntary redundancy. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On paper, it\u2019s a great time to be a job-hunter in Ireland. We\u2019re at full employment, with a joblessness rate of 4pc, wages are rising, and there are skills shortages in a slew of sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But there are dark clouds on the horizon masking these positive economic indicators. The European Union has been racing to clinch a trade deal with the US after President Donald Trump threatened to impose 50pc tariffs on all EU goods from next week, and there\u2019s a wave of lay-offs at the tech giants ploughing investment into artificial intelligence (AI) to cut costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts weigh up the implications of leaving your job in return for a lump sum If you\u2019re in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,94140,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-242097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gabrielle-monaghan","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114805058055594450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}