The world of work is undergoing profound and extensive disruption. Large-scale trends are transforming work, workforces and workplaces. The legacy of the pandemic has combined with a tense economic and social landscape, presenting businesses with significant challenges. How can businesses best navigate this increasingly complex environment? And, if you are in HR and have people responsibilities, what are the key strategic issues and areas of priority action for 2024 and beyond?
As the working landscape continues to shift rapidly in response to world events, this comprehensive new Report provides a timely and important assessment of the key issues and challenges of the day that will impact on the world of work for years to come.
The regulation of AI is front and centre of the minds of policymakers around the World. Central to concerns raised about the rapidly increasing use of AI are the risks of bias and discrimination, particularly in the employment context. Lewis Silkin LLP look at how existing equality and data protection laws apply to these kinds of automated decisions.
Since the world emerged from the Covid pandemic, economies in richer nations such as the UK have faced skills shortages. A range of converging factors have resulted in many sectors experiencing too few workers for the available jobs. This report considers whether this situation is likely to improve in the longer-term. Looking ahead to 2050, the report explores whether a world of work with too few jobs or too few workers is likely to emerge.
One year on from the publication of our ‘Eight Drivers of Change – the future of work’ 2021 Report, the landscape of the world of work has altered significantly. Our new Report by James Davies, Partner at Lewis Silkin, reflects on the extent to which major events in the world, alongside evolving societal attitudes, advancing technologies and a shifting political landscape, have impacted on the key observations and themes identified in the 2021 Report. Importantly, the new Report looks forward to consider how the world of work will evolve in the years ahead and the implications for employers and their workforces.
As the working landscape continues to shift rapidly in response to world events, this comprehensive new Report provides a timely and important assessment of the key issues and challenges of the day that will impact on the world of work for years to come.
As the world of work adjusts to the lasting effects of the pandemic, organisations are increasingly being expected to act on emerging societal issues. People want to see companies take a position and support something more than corporate profits and are becoming increasingly active in advocating for change - businesses have little choice but to respond.
This article looks at what’s behind the rise in brand activism and considers related workplace and employment law issues.
This is the second article in a two-part series by Lewis Silkin LLP exploring the trends emerging from the pandemic in relation to the future of the office.
This is the second article of a two-part series by Lewis Silkin LLP. In this article we explore what motivates people to work and the opportunities and challenges that presents for employers in attracting and retaining talent. In our first article, we investigated the drivers behind the evolving labour market and the phenomenon often labelled the “Great Resignation”.
As we move away from the once habitual 9-5 office routine, this two-part series by Lewis Silkin LLP explores emerging trends in relation to the future of the office and considers how different organisations are approaching the role of the office in the context of new ways of working.
This is the first article of a two-part series by Lewis Silkin LLP, exploring the drivers behind the phenomenon often labelled the “Great Resignation”.
The “Great Resignation”. Hybrid working. Work-life balance. Purpose. Culture. As we emerge from the worst of the pandemic, these words have become ubiquitous in the debate about the “new normal”. While some may dismiss them as “clickbait”, the reality is that they signpost a significant shift in the way society, employers and their workforces have come to view the world of work.
This second article of a two-part series explores what the future of work may hold for women in light of the impact of the pandemic and increasing automation in the labour market.
Advancements in AI, automation and the disruption caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic are combining with dramatically ageing populations. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first explores how these multiple parallel forces present risks and opportunities for age and gender balance in the workplace.
With algorithms playing an increasingly fundamental role in our lives, Lee Nair, Managing Associate and Jasmin Stevens, Trainee Secondee from Lewis Silkin LLP identify potential workplace issues around bias, data protection, trust and good work in the context of the rise of algorithmic management and highlight the suggested recommendations from recent studies by the Institute for the Future of Work and ACAS.
This article by Steven Cox, Chief Evangelist at IRIS FMP, considers the issues around benefits and compensation that organisations must get on top of when assessing the future needs of their business and the workforce.
In this first article of a two part series, we explore the history of women in waged work through the ages and both the historic and current challenges faced by women in the workplace. Our second article will focus on what the future of work may hold for women in light of the pandemic and the effect of increasing automation on the labour market and women's working lives.
In this article, Jörg Bakschas, independent workspace specialist, change coach and design thinker, discusses what companies will need to do to be fit for the future. Agile methods, building trust and developing resilience will create opportunities for companies to harness the human strength of their workforce as well as manage digital transformation.
This article by Laura Bougourd and Niamh Crotty, lawyers in Lewis Silkin LLP’s Real Estate and Employment practice, explores the extent to which Covid-19 has presented the opportunity for us to re-think the way we work long-term and the best way employers can prepare for a full transition to hybrid working.
In this original insight article for the Hub, president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, Jamie Merisotis, explores how technology, including AI, can enable human potential and highlights the key points to keep in mind about human work and its growing importance.
This article by Laura Bougourd and Niamh Crotty, lawyers in Lewis Silkin LLP’s Real Estate and Employment practice, explores the extent to which 2020 changed our working lives and how we view our offices. As employees across the globe adapt their homes into new workspaces, the pandemic has challenged established norms and forced organisations to re-evaluate the purpose and design of the workplace as we know it.
The World Economic Forum’s recently published Future of Jobs 2020 report focusses on the pandemic-related disruptions in 2020 in the context of the longer history of economic cycles, and the expected outlook for technology adoption, jobs and skills in the next five years. Lewis Silkin partner James Davies analyses the key findings from this report, in this insight for the Future of Work Hub.
This article by cultural strategist and thought leader Philippa Wagner, explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has drastically shifted the operation of offices as we know them and what the future of the office should look like.
