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This roundtable discussion looked at the evolving relationship between employers and their people and explored emerging challenges and opportunities for employers as they take steps to link sustainability and a conscious approach to environmental issues to people strategy.
This roundtable discussion explored the reasons behind the skills shortage and the barriers to attracting and retaining the best people.
To better understand Gen Z, the Oliver Wyman Forum and TNM studied them for two years. Its new report explores what makes Gen Z tick, their idealism and desire for personal fulfilment, the rise of side hustle culture, and how this generation is redefining the employer-employee relationship.
This new report by the Institute for Gender and the Economy looks at how remote work can impact the pursuit of equality. It finds that remote and hybrid work models have been associated with career penalties, work-family conflict, higher stress and other mental health challenges – particularly for those who already experience inequality - and sets out some key implications for the future of work.
This new Edelman report focuses on the intersection of brand activism and Gen Z. In a social-first world, people are feeling an intense urgency for action that makes progress against the most pressing issues of our time — issues mounting in number, intensity, and seemingly on their doorstep, raising the stakes for brands to act. No generation feels this sense of responsibility and urgency more than Gen Z as they are fighting for their future. Their cultural impact wields tremendous influence over every other generation, not just in what we buy but in how we live and what we believe. As brands navigate the present and plan for the future, this new cascade of influence changes the way brands and business must operate.
The world of work is changing, adjusting to the lasting effects of the pandemic alongside longer-term, large scale drivers of change. One of the most pressing challenges for global employers is how to attract, retain and develop their people, with labour shortages now posing a big problem for businesses around the world.
The newly launched Pissarides Review, a collaboration between the Institute for the Future of Work, Imperial College London and Warwick Business School, will research the impacts of automation on work and wellbeing and how they are differently distributed between socio-demographic groups and geographical communities in the UK.
This report by Raconteur summarizes how messaging and collaboration apps seem increasingly popular in the workplace, particularly among younger members of staff, but there’s still life left in the old desk phone.
This report from Ius Laboris researches the impact of an evolving geopolitical, demographic and technological landscape on employers.
