Sustainable Workforce

Organizations play a key role in building a sustainable workforce: they invest time and money in training programs, create flexible work opportunities, develop work-life policies, try to enhance the long-term employability of older workers, and invest in flexible and secure contractual arrangements.

Our program explores the causes of such investments and their returns for both employees and the organization.

Which type of organizations invests in training programs for older employees and will it enhance employee productivity? Do leave arrangements help employees balance their work and family lives? And to what extent does investing in work flexibility improve organizational performance?

What are the returns on my organisation’s HR Investments?

To ensure that the research findings are helpful for your organisation’s development, our research team at Utrecht University (ranked #1 in the Netherlands) will produce a tailor made complimentary benchmarking report. The report will compare your organisation within and outside of your sector, in your counry and across Europe on:

1. Investments in sustainable workforce policies, such as:

Health and vitality
Work life flexibility
Technoloy and digitalisation
Diversity in the workplace

2. Returns on these investments in terms of:

Productivity
Performance
Organisational commitment
Work-life balance

If your organisation participated to the first wave of our study, your results of the two waves will be compared with each other. this longitunial element to the report will allow you to observe changes in your organisation.

The report will provide the unique opportunity to evaluate the efficacy of your HR policies and give the basis for making strategic decisions about these investments. The report will be provided free of charge in return for your organisation’s participation in the project.