This report by the International Labour Organisation raises particular concerns about inequality and the effects of the global economic slowdown on the quality of employment. This Report explores global employment and social trends by region and warns that, left unaddressed, the challenges facing the world of work threaten progress towards social justice.
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The CIPD issues new guidance on how employers can adopt technology to optimise job quality and business outcomes. As technology becomes increasingly advanced, there is a growing need to consider how different technologies can optimise business outcomes while supporting workforce engagement, enhancing job quality and providing ‘good work’.
In the 16th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks report, the analysis centres on the risks and consequences of widening inequalities and societal fragmentation. In some cases, disparities in health outcomes, technology, or workforce opportunities are the direct result of the dynamics the pandemic created.
This report by the RSA makes a pertinent note that the underlying absence from the future of work is the human experience. Being too centred on ‘machines’ makes the discourse become dehumanised and imbued with tech determinism, while at the same time remaining too abstract for anyone to know what to do.
This report by the RSA makes a compelling case for developing a new social contract to tackle the rising economic insecurity experienced by workers, including those in non-standard employment arrangements.
The accelerating rate of change in business, the economy, and society challenges both business and HR to adopt new rules for leading, organizing, motivating, managing, and engaging the 21st-century workforce. The report reflects seismic changes in the world of business. This new era, often called the Fourth Industrial Revolution—or, as we have earlier labeled it, the Big Shift—has fundamentally transformed business, the broader economy, and society.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation Minimum Income Standard 2014 study calculates how much people have to earn – taking into account their family circumstances, the changing cost of these essentials and changes to the tax and benefit system – to have an adequate standard of living.
The changing character, places and patterns of work have been the subject of intense policy debate and speculation. Will there be sufficient paid jobs, and will the employment opportunities of the future be radically different from the past?
This report by the IFS presents projections of mortality, family composition, health, care receipt, care provision, labour supply and receipt of disability benefits for people aged 65 and over from 2010–11 through to 2022–23, as well as projections of their wealth and incomes. The report also discusses the effect some alternative policy scenarios could have on the evolution of these incomes.
Families in which at least one adult works have become the largest poverty group in the UK. This round-up summarises the findings of a series of projects looking at the links between jobs, skills and poverty to identify sustainable solutions to in-work poverty and worklessness.