At the time of his retirement, my father had been with his employer for a little over 30 years. Even after he retired they offered to pay him to be available pa

At the time of his retirement, my father had been with his employer for a little over 30 years. Even after he retired they offered to pay him to be available part time for consultation - largely due to the knowledge he had accumulated over those 30 years. With so many others in the company coming and going (job hopping), he was serving as a kind of memory for their engineering department. Incoming employees were making uninformed decisions because they lacked historical context around why things were the way they were. I've experienced a not too dissimilar situation where I've been employed for 9 years. We have teams of people effectively building new feature/functionality nearly identical to things deprecated years ago (for example a rules engine into the product). Everyone is cheering how great this new feature will be - while I roll my eyes. One time I explained to people how reporting used to work in our legacy system and people were shocked how well thought out it was. Anyways, I get many of the points made in this article. I've personally seen some of the negative effects of the gig-ification of our economy.