An increasing number of people are working after reaching the state pension age. In the second quarter of this year, there were 152,000 such employees, compared to 96,000 at the beginning of 2018, according to Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The percentage of post-retirement-age workers rose from 1.2 to 1.7 percent in that period.Men are more likely to keep working past retirement age than women. In the second quarter, 2.3 percent of all male employees were past the state pension age, compared to 1.1 percent of female employees.