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Lifelong Learning Boosts Employment
This new research has helped launch Learning and Work Institute’s Get the Nation Learning campaign, which we are proud to have supported.Read the story -
Can Targeted Support help customers make better retirement income decisions?
I heard the perfect example last week for highlighting why our industry needs to do more to help consumers understand and make decisions over their pensions.Read the story -
Navigating career transitions
There are so many factors that come into play when considering a career change; better work- life- balance, a search for purpose and meaning, a desire to feel more fulfilled, the list is endless.Read the story -
Keeping Britain Working: The role of flexible and part-time work
In 2024 we partnered with flexible work experts and social enterprise Timewise to create the Part-time Works podcast series; to build understanding and celebrate part-time working through informative and interesting discussions of people's experiences of part-time work.Read the story -
How much is enough for retirement?
In conversation with Matthew Blakstad, Director of Analysis and Governance, Nest InsightRead the story -
When is a career change not a career change?
Career change can be daunting, often conjuring up a fear of the unknown. Whether it’s a total 360 degree pivot or more of a slight shift in direction; whether it’s by choice, at a time of someone’s choosing, or involuntary due to factors more outside of someone’s control; part of our ambition with the Careers can change campaign is to help people see that careers can change in many different ways.Read the story -
Part time works: the podcast
Hear how part-time working benefits people’s lives and can be key to unlocking opportunitiesRead the story -
How our perceptions and expectations of retirement and work are changing
The idea that retirement is a ‘hard stop’, a point in time at which people stop working and never work again, is expected to dwindle over the next 10 – 25 years according to our new research, conducted by Message House.Read the story -
Reframing the way we think about our lives
New research from Phoenix Insights, conducted by Message House finds that 7 in 10 people (71%) find the idea of a multi-stage life, one where we can do all sorts of things at all sorts of ages, appealing.Read the story -
Why it’s time to revisit the language referring to older workers
Across Phoenix Group we have used these findings to support colleagues, particularly those working across Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, internal and external communications, public affairs and sustainability, to phase-out our usage of the term 'older workers' and to replace it with more factual age-based descriptions wherever possible.Read the story -
Flexible work means different things to different people
Understanding the different motivations for flexible work will help employers attract and retain a diverse workforce.Read the story -
Learning lessons from across the globe
The workplace is evolving and investing in skills and development is needed now more than everRead the story -
Let’s talk about building the fair and sustainable State Pension of the future
What does a fair and sustainable State Pension look like? And how can we protect those at risk of poverty as the State Pension age rises?Read the story -
Why do we need public deliberation for policy decision making?
In conversation with Ceri Davies, Director of the Centre for Deliberation at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)Read the story -
What is driving UK career changes?
What are the key reasons people aged 40-59 are looking to make a career change?Read the story -
Working with Demos to re-shape careers services
The post-pandemic labour market in the UK has seen record lows of unemployment compared to the rest of Europe.Read the story -
Planning for multiple careers
What would need to happen for society to have a normalised expectation that people have multiple careers in their lifetime?Read the story -
Returning to work as a new mum
Ensuring people remain in good work later in life can be hugely beneficial for an individual’s finances and wellbeing, and with labour shortages still a major issue in our economy, it is also a key element to boosting the UK’s post-pandemic productivity and economic growth for the years ahead.Read the story -
Uncovering public attitudes towards the state pension
What is the purpose of the state pension? How well do people understand the system? Is it fair? What is the role of the individual vs the state vs the employer when it comes to preparing for retirement?Read the story -
Career changes - don't get stuck, get help
We spend a huge part of our lives working, yet many of us probably put more time into planning our last holiday than we did our last career move. In fact according to new research, from Phoenix Insights conducted by Ipsos, 40% of us have done nothing in relation to our careers in the last 6 months.Read the story -
What does extending free childcare mean for 5 million grandparents providing regular childcare?
It was the £5.4bn rabbit out of the hat – a massive increase in public spending to extend free childcare to children as young as 9 months, increase wrap-around care, and to make Universal Credit payments to parents timelier and more generous.Read the story -
A case for defusing the state pension time bomb
The state pension triple lock has been reinstated this April, following the temporary suspension last year. As a result, state pensioners will see their income being protected by the generous mechanism again. It is an important way to maintain a suitable level of state pension.Read the story -
Why offering learning & development is not enough
The public can struggle to consider how working, learning or caring for family could change in the context of longer lives, because of the strength of the structural barriers they perceive to doing things differently.Read the story -
What is your expectation of careers advice?
What is your expectation of careers advice?Read the story -
The time is now for free independent career guidance at any age
Writer Annie Dillard famously said, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” For many of us, a large portion of our days is spent at work; in fact, the average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime. With people living longer and state pension age set to rise that figure is likely to increase further still.Read the story -
Pre-pensioner poverty is on the rise
When I think of retirement, I think of financial freedom, no debt, access to resources with ease, and doing what I want, when I want.Read the story -
What happened to that job you signed up for?
Traditionally, the approach to learning and education is linear; you work through the school system and graduate into the world of work to pursue a career that you have studied and applied for, climbing up the ladder to reach your assigned goal.Read the story -
Another year older – what will happen to the state pension age in 2023?
The rumour mill has been going full throttle as speculation increases around the Government’s review of the state pension age. I’ve read journalists writing that they see no reason not to be able to continue working well into their 70s, with perhaps unsurprising responses to their articles coming from those employed in more physically demanding roles.Read the story -
What is driving the Great Retirement?
Why have they left and how do we get them back? That's the question at the heart of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement announcement of a review into economic inactivity, which will determine what the Government can do to support more people not currently actively seeking work to re-join the labour market.Read the story -
How much have you thought about the state pension?
Despite a lot of discussion in the media this week, I’m guessing for most of us the answer is not much, not yet anyway. But what is it for and is it fair? What will I get and when? Will it still be there when I come to retire?Read the story -
response to the government’s Lifelong Loan Entitlement consultation | Standard Life
With many of us working for longer, we need a system that supports people to learn, upskill and change careers across their lives. However we also know that very little of our current learning and skills provision is targeted at people at mid-life and older.Read the story -
Response to State Pension Age Review call for evidence | Standard Life
Our first report, the Longer Lives Index, provides a comprehensive look at who is and isn’t ready for longer lives across the UK, and demonstrates clearly the scale of the challenge – 18 million adults in the UK are not adequately preparing financially for later life, and 10 million of us are not confident in their ability to secure work, worried that ill health and a lack of skills will stop them from earning what they need to save for retirement.Read the story