Benefits of focusing on sustainable employability

The approach of sustainable employability can help organizations save money and build agility into their own operations.

Such an approach involves:

Assessing market requirements;
Planning the workforce’s KSA needs and retraining and redeploying its workforce to meet changing business imperatives;
Considering workforce members’ individual life cycle and requirements.
Improvement in:

Organizational agility and ability to adapt in changing markets
Planning capabilities
Productivity and performance
Product quality
Right talent at right time
Staff retention
Workforce morale
Reduction in:

Workplace accidents and incidents
Underemployment and unemployment
Absenteeism
Burnout
Quality improvement programmes

Track an organization’s health profile.
Track organization’s overall sustainable employability
Aim of this document

This document can help you connect with any number of stakeholders from the executive board to the shop floor. It also fosters a conversation about employability and your organization’s future, as well as how you might create a structure for ensuring your workforce is happy, healthy and minds their own business – at least most of the time. This document can be part of a larger strategy designed to allow your staff to take greater control over their work life, whether that means taking a day off, switching to a part-time schedule, or perusing a project they’ve been chomping at the bit for months to finally put on the forefront of company priorities.

Scope

This document provides guiding principles for developing and implementing sustainable employment-related policies in companies.