Mercer urges organizations to get their workforce ‘age-ready’ to drive near- and long-term growth - Seite 2

To assist organizations in becoming ‘age-ready’, Mercer has developed a list of 10 ways to optimize an experienced workforce (Exhibit 1). This list is intended as a starting point to begin the organizational dialogue about the future of work as it relates to tapping this important and growing talent pool.

To download a complimentary copy of Mercer’s “Next Stage: Are You Age-Ready?” report or to contact a member of Mercer’s Experienced Workforce Team, please visit https://www.mercer.com/our-thinking/next-stage-are-you-age-ready.html.

*Mercer defines experienced workers as those age 50 years and older.

Exhibit 1: Mercer’s List of 10 Ways to Optimize an Experienced Workforce

1. Collect and analyze your age-profile data to explore demographic and skills pinch points.
2. Develop and implement people and careers strategies that embrace the experienced workforce.
3. Understand what impact your organization’s retirement plan design has on the trajectory of retirement readiness and labor flow.
4. Initiate conversations with experienced employees about how they might work differently.
5. Examine and tackle how ageism might manifest in your organization — analyzing pay, bonuses, performance, promotion and recruitment statistics through a lens focused on aging.
6. Develop a lifelong learning attitude that positions people to embrace jobs of the future.
7. Measure productivity levels across different age and position cohorts in your organization.
8. Implement an effective flexible-working strategy.
9. Develop and implement a program offering support for those who have caregiver responsibilities.
10. Create and sustain an inclusive culture that supports and enables your experienced-worker strategy.

¹ – OECD, Composite leading indicator (CLI), 2019 available at https://data.oecd.org/leadind/composite-leading-indicator-cli.htm

² – World Economic Forum. The Future of Jobs Report, 2016, available at http://reports.weforum.org/future-of-jobs-2016/.

³ – The World Bank, “Life Expectancy at Birth, Total (Years),” available at https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN.

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