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Improving Working Lives - except for older workers?

Anna

The Centre for Better Ageing has just released a report calling on UK employers to make their policies and practices more age-friendly as thousands of employers are unprepared for the ageing workforce (https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/news/uk-employers-unprepared-ageing-workforce?platform=hootsuite)

They say: "Without changes to our workplaces, more and more of us will face worse working lives as we age."

Is your organisation prepared for the demographic shift? What actions are you taking to be "age-friendly"?

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  • "Thousands of employers are unprepared for the aging workforce" but those employers are the aging workforce. The board or SMT or HR Department considering how to adapt to an aging workforce is aging itself. There is no ageless or ever-youthful majority in the workplace. Any article that talks about older workers as if they are a separate group distinct from the main population is missing the point.

    The shift we are working through right now is not just about an aging workforce. We are moving towards true diversity, sometimes in inches, sometimes in leaps and sometimes kicking and screaming. We need to humanise our workplaces and create the conditions where everyone can do their best work for the good of us all. "Our purpose is to champion better work and working lives by improving practices in people and organisation development, for the benefit of individuals, businesses, economies and society". 

    Or, to put it another way, and with thanks to David B:

    Labour is blossoming or dancing where
    The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
    Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
    Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
    O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
    Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
    O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
    How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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  • "Thousands of employers are unprepared for the aging workforce" but those employers are the aging workforce. The board or SMT or HR Department considering how to adapt to an aging workforce is aging itself. There is no ageless or ever-youthful majority in the workplace. Any article that talks about older workers as if they are a separate group distinct from the main population is missing the point.

    The shift we are working through right now is not just about an aging workforce. We are moving towards true diversity, sometimes in inches, sometimes in leaps and sometimes kicking and screaming. We need to humanise our workplaces and create the conditions where everyone can do their best work for the good of us all. "Our purpose is to champion better work and working lives by improving practices in people and organisation development, for the benefit of individuals, businesses, economies and society". 

    Or, to put it another way, and with thanks to David B:

    Labour is blossoming or dancing where
    The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
    Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
    Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
    O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
    Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
    O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
    How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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