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Embrace change to boost employment for all ages
4 May 2011
Denise Keating, Chief Executive of EFA quoted in People Management article.
Jobs for life may be gone, but ‘flexi and part-time work could fill void’.
Employers and staff must “embrace the changing shape of UK work” to increase employment for all ages, the head of the Employers’ Forum on Age (EFA) has told People Management.
Denise Keating, chief executive of the EFA, said that the workplace was in the midst of a transition that meant there was “more work to be had".
Talking about the current state of employment in Britain, she said: “It’s not an easy situation when you’ve got 600,000 18-24 year olds out of work, but work is not finite. There is more work to be had. The government is trying to encourage more people to become entrepreneurs and it’s this change in the shape of work that people can’t quite get their heads around.”
Keating predicted that, as part of the workplace transition, more small businesses would be set up and with them workers would be exposed to increased flexible working, part-time roles and flexible retirement, since this was more prevalent in the SME sector.