"Well, obviously no one here is 'financially excluded' - they're all employed, and everyone in the same salary band is paid the same! This isn't relevant to us! " If you're an employer, that's likely your first reaction to the idea that working people can be financially excluded - yes, even when they work for your company, which pays above the minimum wage, and has salary review points every three years, and six months fully paid maternity leave (which is quite burdensome for you to offer, actually, and you really wish people would be a bit more appreciative...) While the ways in which demographics which are excluded from employment - the aged, those with significant-impact disabilities, those with full-time kinship care responsibilities, asylum seekers, those who seem to have no barriers, but "just can't get a job for some reason" - are also excluded from the very real and obvious benefits of financial security - better mental and
The Productive Pessimist offers life coaching and business consultancy both remotely across the UK, and in person in Great Yarmouth and Waveney, and central Norwich. Our corporate consultancy services focus on strategy, inclusion, growth and diversification, crisis management, and change management. We are lived experience specialists in neurodiversity inclusion, disability and mental health inclusion, and trans inclusion.