FLEXIBILITY BY THE NUMBERS


"I'm able to take time off from work when I think it's necessary."


Q2 2021 Flexibility means: Q1 2021 Q4 2020 Q3 2020 73 74 75 76 Agreement Source: Activated Insights 77 78 79


Willingness, skills, and resources—on both the employee and employer side—to not only respond to changing needs and circumstances but to be proactive and problem-solving regardless.


Flexibility requires: • Comfort with change


• Resources such as technology to make flexible roles and schedules work


80


• Big-picture perspective—time off today might mean a more motivated employee later; a change in roles is a chance to learn a new skill


• Good boundaries: Understanding what must not change or be compromised


• Trust, and more trust


In Activated Insights’ polls of 102,056 senior living employees, 75 percent or more workers agreed that they could take time off—making senior living well-positioned to answer employee needs for flexible scheduling.


76%


$6.5T 51%


Of millennials would take a pay cut of at least 3 percent to work for a company that offers flexible hours, says a Qualtrics/Accel Partners survey.


Is how much wide-scale investment in upskilling—training existing employees in new skills—could boost US gross domestic product by 2030.


Of employees said they have considered looking for a new job that has more flexibility for working parents, according to 1,000 surveyed in Bequom’s 2021 Culture and Compensation report.


60% 50% 48%


Of employees in the Bequom survey said their companies had created more flexibility in working hours in 2020.


Of employers said the skills critical to resilience are adaptability, a growth mindset, and openness to change, according to the Mercer Global Talent Trends 2020–2021 report.


Of companies say their immediate priority in post- pandemic transformation is to reinvent flexibility, according to the Mercer report.


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