We live in an urban world. Half of the world's population already lives in cities, generating more than 80 percent of global GDP today. But the urban economic story is even more concentrated than this suggests.
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What changes can we anticipate will radically transform working like in the next decade? How can we manage this? In their report "Transitioning to Workplace 2020", Cisco consider the issues.
How does the future affect your workplace? Cognizant investigates how organisations such as Google, Netflix and Apple are taking advantage of driving mega-forces in today's environment.
Work is universal. But, how, why, where and when we work has never been so open to individual interpretation. In this fascinating article for Business Strategy Review, Lynda Gratton provides a preview of the real world of 21st century work.
This report, prepared by The Work Foundation imagines three distinct future of work scenarios that throw up a range of issues for people management.
This report considers how the nature of work and employment is likely to change over the next few decades, in the context of developments in technology and other key drivers of change.
A new generation has come of age, shaped by an unprecedented revolution in technology and dramatic events both at home and abroad. Some call them Generation C, yet to the Pew Research Centre, they are "Generation Next". This report examines their impact in a world where the only stationary constant is rapid change.
The Leitch Review was tasked in 2004 to consider the UK's long term skills needs. It predicted (correctly) an oncoming skills gap storm set to wreak havoc in the labour market.
This ESRC working paper highlights the position of organisations as a crucial mediating influence between the macro, global environment on the one hand and changing social systems on the other.