Low pay in the UK should be a cause for great concern. With one in five workers on a low wage, and the UK ranking poorly against other developed economies in terms of the prevalence of low paying jobs, far too many people suffer from in-work poverty, their life chances limited by low income. This report from the Resolution Foundation considers the place of in-work benefits and pay mobility trends, as well as the living wage and NMW.
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How will sociological, technological and demographic changes affect the future of work? This report takes a brief look at the future of work in terms of the factors influencing and enabling the changes already seen and those predicted still to come.
How do women fare in the labour market? What has changed in the past 40 years? Answers to these questions (and more) can be found in this report by the ONS.
This CIPD report discusses the future of work under three broad themes: the changing nature of work; the diverse and changing nature of the workforce; and the changing nature of organisations and the workplace context and environment.
Do employers have a fundamental contribution to make in tackling youth unemployment? This report by the Work Foundation argues that they do.
In this Deloitte report, Professor Dexter Dunphy argues that the established norm of a business's workforce being housed in a central office is set to change. The cause? Technology...
This report from the RSA, sponsored by Vodafone, explores the adoption, value and future of flexible working.
We have an ageing population in developed economies. This report from TalentSmoothie looks at this demographic shift and offers practical guidance to help organisations motivate and engage an ageing workforce.
"PwC’s NextGen: A global generational study" is the largest, most comprehensive global generational study ever conducted into the attitudes of millennials in the workplace. It has found that in order to foster a greater sense of commitment by the millennial generation (those born between 1980 and 1995 and currently under 33 years of age), and avoid the problems of managing millennials, it will be necessary to transform the future workplace.