, < Regeneration, < New Start editorial index page A friend of mine was explaining to me the other day why he’d decided to stay in his job, despite being passed over for promotion. The company’s final salary pension scheme was most attractive, he insisted, and he only had another 16 years to stick it out. Roll on early retirement. He won’t appreciate me saying this, but my friend is an endangered species. He’s spent all his working life with the same firm: he’s what the American commentator William Whyte, writing in 1956, called ‘organisation man’.