Maybe a load of workers, drivers among them - didn’t realize they actually COULD afford to “Retire” - until being put on furlough woke them up to the realization that “If I can manage on 80% of my pay, then I can manage on around the same amount for the pension I’ve got coming…”
Why retire @ 67 for a pension barely higher than retiring at 60 gives you?
It seriously isn’t worth booting that retirement down the road 7 years just for an extra £85 per week… You’d have to live well into your 90’s to make such a deferred pension pay…
Statistically, only one-in-a-thousand people live to be aged 90+.