The Singapore government promulgated the Retirement and Re-employment Act in 2012 to promote extending working life. This article offers insight into the utility of Bourdieu’s conceptual framework of habitus, field and capital in exploring how older employees in Singapore adjust to re-employment. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 re-employed older persons consisting of four women and six men. The thematic analysis of the data indicated that a series of adjustment strategies underpinned by the realism-, positivity-, productivity- and proactivity-oriented habitus synergized to empower research participants to navigate through the field of re-employment. The article proposes that in the Singapore context policy makers and employers need to take a habitus-sensitive approach to re-employed older persons, developing a habitus-friendly field of re-employment.

新加坡政府于2012年颁布了《退休和再就业法》，以延长工作寿命。本文深入探讨了布迪厄的习惯，领域和资本概念框架的效用探索新加坡的老员工如何适应再就业。对10名重新就业的老年人（包括四名女性和六名男性）进行了半结构化的深度访谈。对数据的主题分析表明，在以现实主义，积极性，生产力和积极性为导向的习惯的基础上，一系列调整策略相互配合，使研究参与者能够在再就业领域中导航。文章建议，在新加坡，政策制定者和雇主需要采取一种习惯惯用的方法来重新雇用老年人，从而发展一种习惯惯用的再就业领域。