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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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Session: 26219: Barriers to Career Advancement

11712: Career (Un)Sustainability: Introducing a Career Sustainability Ecosystem (session 26219)

Monday, July 28, 2025
10:15 - 11:45 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C2-m1
Session Type: Paper Session
Orientation: Practice,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/nR6J3G
We question the fundamental theoretical proposition of career sustainability, elucidating its feasibility in contexts of carers whose individual agency is severely compromised. We illustrate this empirically through the experiences of parents caring for children with Type 1 Diabetes. We contend this study is temporally and theoretically urgent for organisations given the prevalence and dramatic increase of diabetes diagnoses and complications since Covid-19, and the often covertness of this group of workers. We conducted a netnographic study to explore the impacts of caring with parents of T1DM children in the UK, generating 652 responses. We apply an in-depth, focussed lens to the challenges parents face by recognising the negative impact of elongated, continuous exposure leading to extreme levels of fatigue in parents. Our findings highlight that individual agency to achieve a sustainable career will likely be unsuccessful without proactive organisational interventions. In response to identifying individual and organisational constructs necessary for career survival, we conceptualise a sustainable career ecosystem framework in support of continued and sustainable employment.

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