Older Workers (50+) Employment Survey

 

Your experience matters. The Healthy Working Wales project aims to build a clearer understanding of what helps people aged 50 and over to stay healthy, supported and engaged at work, and what can make continuing in employment more difficult. By sharing your views, you will help identify practical changes, workplace support and services that could make a meaningful difference now and in the future. Please answer the following questions based on your own experience, choosing the options that best reflect your circumstances and adding comments where invited.

There are no right or wrong answers, and all responses are anonymous. Thank you for your time.

1. Age range: *

 

2. Sector: *

 

3. Size of organisation: *

 

4. What helps you remain healthy, engaged and motivated at work? Select all that apply. *

 

5. What factors might make it more difficult to continue working? Select all that apply. *

 

6. As a worker aged 50+, what aspects of work have the biggest positive and negative effect on your health and wellbeing?

 

7. Looking ahead to the next few years, what might help you continue working in a way that suits you? Select all that apply. *

 

8. How easy is it to discuss changing needs at work? *

 

9. What forms of flexibility or job adaptation are most helpful? Select all that apply. *

 

10. If health affects your work, what support would help you stay in work and do your job well? Select all that apply. *

 

11. What makes it easier or harder to talk to an employer or line manager about a change in health or wellbeing?

 

12. What causes stress at work for people in this stage of their working lives? What would help reduce it?

 

13. Are there aspects of your work or working conditions that affect your ability to work well or continue in the role? Have these changed over time? What practical changes could help? *

 

14. What makes flexible working easy to request and use in practice? Select all that apply.

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15. What makes flexible working difficult? *

 

16. What could employers reasonably do to make it easier to combine work and caring responsibilities? (Optional)

 

17. What does good employer support and workplace adjustment look like? Select all that apply. *

 

18. What does good support from an employer look like when someone returns to work after being off sick? Select all that apply. *

 

19. What would make it easier to get the support or changes you need at work?

 

20. How have changes in technology affected your work? *

 

21. Following Q20, if applicable, select all that apply: *

 

22. What practical support from Healthy Working Wales would be most useful? Select all that apply. *

 

23. Are there any other comments or feedback you would like to give? *

 

Thank you again for your time!