Next generation work

Problem

Classic career management is limited to the context of the organization with a focus on upward mobility and retention. Longer working life, combined with a fast evolving business context, demands innovative solutions for sustainable careers.

Solution

Experience@work, a collaboration between several large businesses, breaks this image and focuses on opportunities for older employees to start working in a different organization – usually a social profit organization or SME – while keeping their labor contract. This offers the opportunity of new challenges and renewed commitment for the employee, while the hiring organization gets the opportunity to contract a senior profile for whom they would not normally have the means.

At the same time, this step outside the organization is not an obvious choice for older employees. In a first phase, this project investigates the factors that influence a successful transition. In a second phase, we are currently investigating the incentives that can increase the target group’s interest for such a career move as well as barriers that must be removed.

Course

Phase 1 (2017): interviews with older employees who started working at another organization through Experience@Work, with their former and their current manager.

Phase 2 (2019): focus groups with the target group of older employees in some of the organizations concerned to map out incentives and barriers.

Advantage

Guidance for organizations on creating sustainable career management that goes beyond the classic organizational boundaries.

Result

White paper on the possibilities and success factors of co-sourcing as a solution for the extension of working life.

Guidance on the mobilization of senior talent in organizations.