Still the head: A 65-year-old pensioner Zsoka Farkas works in a call centre as a team leader in Miskolc, Hungary.
ZSUZSANNA Czeizel told herself she’d never work again after she retired in 2012. But since October, she’s held a job – scanning boxes of sweets in a large warehouse near Budapest.
The 65-year-old pensioner is one of a growing number of retirees hired by companies in eastern Europe desperate for workers. Economic growth and an exodus of millions of workers to richer parts of the European Union have left gaping holes in local labour markets.
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