The Centre for Ageing Better and Timewise announce partnership with leading employers to enable fairer access to flexible working for older workers.
Flexible working is important for workers of all ages: It can help older workers balance caring responsibilities or personal health circumstances; enable a phased transition to retirement and is a key part of being an age-friendly employer.
However, not all older workers are able to access all the benefits that good, quality flexible working opportunities can bring. Individual, managers or policies might restrict people’s access, uptake and sustainability of flexible work.
The Centre for Ageing Better is keen to establish how line managers, job design and organisational change can best support older workers to work flexibly. Crucially, looking to find out which practical steps and guidance employers can take to bring about these changes.
Ageing Better will be working with Timewise to carry out insight and design work with a range of large employers. They’ll be working on detailed pilots with two leading employers in Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital and Legal & General. By working with these leading employers they hope to develop new, innovative ways of bringing about practical changes to other workplaces. Furthermore, they’ll be working with a wider advisory group of employers including Leeds City Council and Whitbread.
They have also commissioned the Tavistock Institute as an evaluation partners - findings from the Timewise pilots will be shared in 2020 and the evaluation findings in 2021.