This report details the findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, that took place in the UK from June to December 2022. Most strikingly, the results showed that 92% of participating companies are continuing with the four-day week.
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A global survey of C-level executives and directors, focused on macroeconomic, strategic, and operational risks, highlights their views regarding the disruptive risk landscape over the next 10 years through 2032 and what businesses should consider. Conducted online between September and October 2022, the survey captures insights from 1,304 leaders across multiple industries, with broad geographic representation.
This new Workmonitor by Randstad provides the voice of employees around the world on what they want and expect from their employers and how willing they are to ask for it. It offers insight into what is shaping the new world of work in each of the 34 surveyed markets across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
Edelman’s latest Trust Barometer reveals that business is now viewed as the only global institution to be both competent and ethical. It explores how a lack of faith in societal institutions triggered by economic anxiety, disinformation, mass-class divide and a failure of leadership has brought us to where we are today – deeply and dangerously polarised.
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.
This report by the European Parliament sets out a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving working conditions in platform work. With many sectors adopting platform work, conditions will need to improve to reflect the millions of people involved across the EU and to support the growing labour platform economy.
This new report by Economist Impact argues that human-centric strategies are needed for businesses to drive sustainable business growth. The Magnetic Workplace Barometer gauges confidence both today and in five years’ time across three main pillars: productivity and infrastructure; employee engagement; and culture.
The 2022 British Social Attitudes report reveals that the cost-of-living crisis emerges as the most immediate challenge in the UK, threatening a severe drop in living standards. Yet, at the same time, the NHS is still recovering from the pandemic, there remains deep political division over Brexit which seems to be part of a wider ‘culture war’, while a summer of unprecedented heat has been a sharp reminder that climate change potentially poses an existential threat to the whole world. The report explores evidence on where the public stand on these various challenges faced by the new government.
The OECD’s 2022 Skills for Jobs Database analyses data from 43 OECD countries, showing where gaps are emerging between skill supply and demand and providing country-level information for a wide range of skill categories, including cognitive, social and physical skills.
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.