The UK is on the cusp of a major reshaping of its economy as the effects of Covid-19, Brexit and the transition towards a net zero economy are felt – marking the end of a long period of stability.
This finding from the Changing Jobs report, by the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, contradicts the popular impression that we have gone through an era of rapid change. The report states that the popular conception that the UK labour market has been in rapid and accelerating flux in recent decades – with robots replacing jobs, and factory work replaced by gig economy jobs – is completely inaccurate.
This report from the MIT Technology Review Task Force explores building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines, making the case that automation and AI won't lead to widespread job destruction anytime soon.
The Havard Business School explains what type of impact reconciling cultural and digital transformation can on designing the future of work.
McKinsey Global Institute offers ten charts as a snapshot summary of some of the best of their research on the future of work over the past year.
Hiscox report on how ageism in the workplace has changed and increased. The number of age-related discrimination charges filed with employers and the EEOC by workers aged 65+ doubled from 1990 to 2017. There were 18,376 cases in 2017.
In this report, the ManpowerGroup discusses that rather than reducing employment opportunities, organisations are investing in digital, shifting tasks to robots and creating jobs. Therefore the ‘skills revolution’ is in full flow.
This recent report by MIT-IBM’s Watson AI Lab shows that for most of us, the automation revolution probably won’t mean physical robots replacing human workers, but it will come from algorithms.
This recent report from Raconteur explores how the slip-ups by businesses can jeopardise the promised improved efficiency from the industrial adoption of robotic process automation (RPA).
This report by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee focuses on automation and the future of work, exploring how AI and automation changes and augments jobs as well as replaces some jobs with entirely new ones.
This report in the Citi GPS navigating the future of work series, looks at the risks that come with the change of technology, digitisation and automation in relation to the future of work.
