We face the biggest workforce challenge of the 21st century, the ageing workforce. The social, political, and economic implications of increasing longevity, declining birth rates and the ageing of the baby boomer generation is enormous.
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For Government
Over the next 5 -10 years public organisations face a significant risk, the loss of the knowledge and expertise of older workers built up over the past decades.
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For Business
Increasingly employees will want to work for age friendly employers. As skill shortages increase, employers have the opportunity to become an age friendly employer of choice.
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The Staying On Gateway is a password protected online portal for member organisations. Access to up to date information, resources, templates and research.
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Where is the leadership?
I am just back from Australia and was again struck by the level of coverage of issues related to the ageing population, the sophisticated understanding of the economic contribution older workers can make and awareness of age discrimination. In New Zealand we had the excellent Business of Ageing report in early 2011, but apart from [...]
Active Inclusion Policies are Only Answer to Employment Impact of Ageing Workers
The labour market shortfall caused by the decline in Europe’s population and workforce will not be offset by increasing immigration levels nor by higher fertility and productivity rates, delegates will be told at the Opening Conference of the 2012 European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations in Copenhagen. To read the opening statement [...]
Flexibility ThreeYears On – Review of Flexible Working Arrangements
The Department of Labour have released a report on the impact of the legislative changes made in 2008 that enabled greater flexibility for people with caring responsibilities. Among the main findings: A majority of employee-reported requests for flexibility were accepted by employers without recourse to the formal legal process. Interestingly, the level of awareness of [...]
Two Australian reports launched
Two outstanding reports from Australia were launched at the Older Workers Workability conference in Melbourne in December 2011. Realising the Economic Potential of Senior Australians – turning grey into gold. The third report from the Advisory Panel on the Economic Potential of Senior Australians makes 36 recommendations ranging across the ageing agenda, housing, participation, lifelong [...]
Baby Boomers Envision What’s Next?
AARP in the USA have released an updated study on how boomers are preparing for or experiencing their retirement years. This is the third in a series of studies. The previous ones were conducted in 1998 and 2003. While we know from the NZ Boomers Dreams study that there are differences it is none the [...]
“Retirement” Age
I am not entering the political debate. I thought this article in the Herald on Tuesday 8 November put the economic case. While the media and politicians cast the debate as being about “retirement” age the authors were careful to talk about the age of entitlement to National Superannuation, a more accurate description of the [...]
An Inspiration
Every now and again you read a story that is simply inspiring. The story in The Press 29 October 2011 of Colin Johnson the owner of Christchurch institution “Johnson the Grocer” is one such story. In his 70′s he has bounced back from the earthquake and reopened in a container in Cashel Mall. Razed Grocer [...]
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