{"id":127,"date":"2012-05-21T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:06:37","slug":"helping-employees-transition-to-life-from-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/helping-employees-transition-to-life-from-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping employees transition to life from work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IBM has some &#8220;Transition to&#8221; programs to help employees prepare for the next phases of their lives or career, like the &#8220;Transition to Teaching&#8221; program, which helps employees become teachers by funding the education needed to gain credentials. IBM recently announced a special program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9226750\/New_IBM_retirement_program_guarantees_job_through_2013\">&#8220;Transition to Retirement&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;that would guarantee employment through 2013 for eligible employees, and they would get paid 70% of their normal salary for working 60% of their hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/transition_retire-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"497\" height=\"317\" data-id=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/transition_retire-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" title=\"transition_retire\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/transition_retire-1.png 497w, https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/transition_retire-1-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course not everyone has the luxury of retiring a whole year early, but if faced with that decision, I hope I will have saved enough today so I don&#8217;t have to think about what to do. Hopefully my kids will be ok with my moving in with them, you know, just in case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This month&#8217;s internal comic strip is about new and upcoming &#8220;transition to&#8221; programs that I wish were available&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/transition2-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"970\" data-id=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/transition2-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" title=\"transition2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/transition2-1.png 500w, https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/transition2-1-155x300.png 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has some &#8220;Transition to&#8221; programs to help employees prepare for the next phases of their lives or career, like the &#8220;Transition to Teaching&#8221; program, which helps employees become teachers by funding the education needed to gain credentials. IBM recently announced a special program called &#8220;Transition to Retirement&#8221;&nbsp;that would guarantee employment through 2013 for eligible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hellomonday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallopello.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}