What Readers Say
From the People
Who Have Read It
Feedback from individuals who have worked through the self-study pack or reading series, and from HR managers who have used the corporate program with their teams.
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What Participants Have Said
A selection of feedback from individuals and HR contacts who have completed one or more Retirevia programs.
Prasert Kanchana
Senior Engineer · Chiang Mai
I picked up the self-study pack about a year before I planned to retire. I have an engineering background, not a finance one, so I had always found pension explanations either too basic or too full of jargon. The modules here were well-paced — each one felt like it was written for someone who thinks carefully but does not already know the terminology. The section on provident funds and RMFs was the most useful for me personally. I came away with a much clearer picture of what I was actually walking into.
April 2025 · Self-Study Pack
Suporn Wannasri
HR Manager · Bangkok
We had three employees retiring in the same quarter and our HR team had no structured way to help them prepare. We used the corporate program and I am glad we did. The HR briefing session was useful for our team — we could answer employee questions after the materials had been distributed, which matters when people have follow-up questions between sessions. I would use it again for the next cohort.
April 2025 · Corporate Program
Naruemon Thirawat
Teacher · Nonthaburi
I read through the Retirement Transition Series over four weeks while I was still working. The topic about discussing plans with family members was one I had not seen covered anywhere else — most retirement information focuses on money and skips the social side completely. The weekly format helped me take time with each installment rather than rushing through. I would have liked slightly more coverage of the GPF in the first installment, but overall it was worth the time.
March 2025 · Reading Series
Chaiwat Boonrat
Logistics Director · Samut Prakan
What I appreciated most was that nothing in the pack was trying to sell me something. Other materials I had looked at — from banks and insurance companies — always felt like a preamble to a product pitch. This was just information. Clear tables, straightforward explanations, and no advice about what to do with it. That is exactly what I needed to make my own judgments.
April 2025 · Self-Study Pack
Orawan Phimchan
Civil Servant · Bangkok
As a civil servant, I found the sections on the Government Pension Fund particularly relevant. The explanation of how GPF interacts with Social Security contributions for employees who have moved between public and private sector work was more thorough than anything I had read before. The reflection questions were a bit simple for some modules, but the factual content itself was solid. I recommended it to two colleagues who are also approaching the end of their service.
March 2025 · Self-Study Pack
Maneerat Ratchaprasert
HR Coordinator · Pathum Thani
The corporate program saved us a lot of internal preparation time. Before, when an employee was retiring, we would put together a rough information pack ourselves — never complete, never entirely accurate. Having a ready-made program with proper editorial backing meant we could hand it over with confidence. The Q&A session at the end was the part employees found most valuable — they had specific questions after reading and the session addressed them directly.
April 2025 · Corporate Program
Case Studies
How the Programs Have Been Used
Challenge
A Bangkok-based architect in his late fifties had been contributing to a provident fund for over twenty years but had never clearly understood how the fund would pay out at retirement, or how it interacted with his Social Security entitlements accumulated over the same period.
How the Pack Helped
He worked through all eight modules of the Self-Study Pack over three weeks. The module covering the interaction between provident fund withdrawals and Social Security pension entitlements addressed exactly the question he had been carrying for years. He was then able to have a more productive conversation with his employer's HR team.
Outcome
He described going from "not knowing the right questions to ask" to having a clear framework for understanding his situation. He completed the reading in approximately three weeks, using the reflection questions as a reference checklist for conversations with his HR team.
"I had been working beside this subject for years without actually understanding it. Three weeks of reading changed that."
Challenge
A medium-sized logistics company based in Samut Prakan had eight employees approaching retirement within a twelve-month window. Their HR team of two had no capacity to develop dedicated preparation materials and no budget to bring in a financial consultant for individual sessions.
How the Program Ran
The company engaged the Corporate Pre-Retirement Information Program for a cohort of eight employees. The HR coordinator attended the briefing session two weeks before the program. Printed materials were distributed to the cohort, who read them over ten days. The closing Q&A session was held on-site.
Outcome
The HR coordinator reported that the Q&A session ran for 75 minutes and all employees participated. The most common topic raised was the timeline for SSF benefit processing after separation. The company has since enquired about a second cohort for the following year's group of retiring employees.
"It gave our HR team something solid to stand behind when employees asked questions we would not have been able to answer otherwise."
Challenge
A secondary school deputy principal in Nonthaburi was eighteen months from her planned retirement date and felt underprepared for the practical adjustments — not the financial side, which she felt she understood, but the day-to-day structure of a life without work as its anchor.
How the Series Helped
She read the Retirement Transition Reading Series over four weeks. She found the second installment — on mapping a personal weekly rhythm — particularly useful, and used the reflection questions to draft a rough daily and weekly structure for the first months after retirement. The third installment prompted a conversation with her husband that she said they had been putting off for two years.
Outcome
She described the series as "practical in the right way" — focused on things she could actually think through and act on, rather than general advice she had already heard. She completed all four installments and said she felt more prepared for the non-financial aspects of retirement than she had expected to.
"The second week made me realize I had been avoiding a conversation I needed to have. Reading it made starting that conversation easier."
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Adult Learning Quality Mark — 2024
Thailand Education Practitioners Network. Awarded for reading program clarity and sequential module design.
HRMAT Commendation — 2023
Human Resources Management Association of Thailand. Recognition for the corporate pre-retirement information program format.
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