About Blume
We are in the process of gently launching Blume.
Blume finds flexible work for older people. Or to put it another way Blume offers everyone highly skilled, experienced, reliable and good value labour. And you don’t even have to be an older person to join.
Blume’s aim is to calm the perfect storm created by these four squalls:
1. We are living longer. In the next twenty years the number of over-65s in the UK will grow by 6 million to 17 million.
2. We are rubbish at employing older people... 80% of 50 year olds are in work but this declines to 60% of 60 year olds and just 30% of 65 year olds.
3. …but the economy needs older people. At current rates older people will vacate 14.5 million jobs by 2022 but just 7 million will enter the workplace.
4. …and surveys suggest that many older people want to carry on working (but preferably part time); for example 4.8 million 65 to 70 year olds would like to be working but just 1.2 million currently are working.
So that’s why Blume exists.
If you want to take a look then get in touch and I will give you a password. And please do as we would love as much robustly salty feedback as we can get. The url is https://blume.life.
Much more anon.
Blume finds flexible work for older people. Or to put it another way Blume offers everyone highly skilled, experienced, reliable and good value labour. And you don’t even have to be an older person to join.
Blume’s aim is to calm the perfect storm created by these four squalls:
1. We are living longer. In the next twenty years the number of over-65s in the UK will grow by 6 million to 17 million.
2. We are rubbish at employing older people... 80% of 50 year olds are in work but this declines to 60% of 60 year olds and just 30% of 65 year olds.
3. …but the economy needs older people. At current rates older people will vacate 14.5 million jobs by 2022 but just 7 million will enter the workplace.
4. …and surveys suggest that many older people want to carry on working (but preferably part time); for example 4.8 million 65 to 70 year olds would like to be working but just 1.2 million currently are working.
So that’s why Blume exists.
If you want to take a look then get in touch and I will give you a password. And please do as we would love as much robustly salty feedback as we can get. The url is https://blume.life.
Much more anon.
