Commission for Healthier Working Lives
Laid the foundations of an idea
Roughly 2.6 million 16- to 64-year-olds aren’t in work due to ill-health. And it’s a rising trend. The newly formed Commission for Healthier Working Lives was set up to research and explore why. The reasons are complex – types of jobs, quality of work, pay and reward, and opportunities for progression all play a part.
The Commission wanted a one-off flyer to promote its first event on how stakeholders can both improve working-age health and create a thriving workforce. But thinking ahead – which matters even for one-offs – I came up with the idea to use a cog icon to represent the workforce. Cogs are dynamic and efficient when they work, and the opposite when they don’t. It’s the germ of an idea that can be developed for future publications – say, a broken cog to represent an underperforming workforce.