Your business case

Why is Trend 3 important to your business?

• ‘One size fits all’ management is inefficient and costly. Working life patterns and demographics are changing requiring employers to develop new relationships and more flexible management styles for employees
• Disability confident employers understand how to use flexible management to enable disabled and older people to contribute. A lot of the adjustments, which are made for disabled people, are needed by everyone

3 key facts

• 60% of workers rate time and flexibility as very important factors in retention [i]; only 1 in 8 employers provide managers with training in flexible management [ii]
• In the UK, between 2000 and 2010 there will be 19% fewer workers aged 35 - 44 and 14% more workers aged over 65 [iii]
• 43.7% of unemployed disabled people in Europe believe they could work with more support [iv]; 8 out of 10 personnel managers said that making the changes required by the Disability Discrimination Act was easy. [v]