Retention Boosting Work Design
Retain experience. Protect delivery. Strengthen your workforce.
Good work design is one of the simplest, most cost-effective ways to retain experienced workers and protect critical skills. When work is intentionally shaped, roles become easier to sustain, more attractive to stay in and better aligned with workforce needs.
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Our Retention Boosting Work Design offer provides practical, evidence-informed ways to retain skills without major restructuring or cost. It draws on research with 225 business leaders and focuses on the small changes that deliver meaningful results.
Why This Matters Now: The Retention and Workforce Planning Case
Workforce planners and HR leaders tell us the same thing: recruitment alone can’t solve today’s skills shortages. Organisations increasingly need solutions that keep experienced employees, reduce avoidable churn and create sustainable roles.
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Strong work design directly supports:
longer tenure from experienced and midlife workers
better continuity in institutional knowledge and service delivery
more adaptable teams
reduced recruitment spend and fewer hard-to-fill vacancies
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Good work design keeps people — and performance — steady.
What we offer
Practical, Retention-Focused Work Design Solutions
Our approach is intentionally simple and easy to implement. We work with you to strengthen the factors that keep experienced staff engaged and able to perform well.
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High-impact improvements to how work is structured
We identify the organisational patterns that most affect whether people stay or leave, and highlight targeted changes that make roles more sustainable. This typically includes clarity of expectations, workload balance, autonomy and task–skill alignment.
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Practical flexibility planning for experienced and frontline workers
We help you identify where flexibility is realistic — even in fixed or frontline roles — and support managers to implement it in a way that protects delivery and strengthens retention.
What You Walk Away With
a clear set of recommended work design improvements
a simple flexibility map by role type
manager-ready tools for conversations and planning
Who is this for?
Ideal for organisations looking to:
reduce turnover in experienced staff
protect organisational memory and critical skills
make flexible working feasible in more roles
support managers to shape work more strategically
Why It Works: Evidence-Based Retention and Work Design
This approach is research-driven, practical and focused on actions that reliably improve retention.
Good work design doesn’t need to be complicated — it just needs to be deliberate.