The Future of Work blogs and reports

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Universal Credit – enough is enough

Blog

14 Jun 2018

Anthony Painter

Anthony Painter argues that instead of trying patch up a fundamentally flawed welfare system, we now need revolutionary change leading towards a Universal Basic Income and other major reforms.
On bullshit jobs and awful managers

Blog

29 May 2018

Benedict Dellot

Bullshit jobs may well be commonplace. But don't blame some imagined conspiracy. Blame awful managers.
The long road to a 4-day working week

Blog

21 May 2018

Benedict Dellot

The allure of a 4-day working week is understandable. But it will remain a pipe dream unless we can address endemic low pay, the affront of technology on our leisure time and unwarranted employer expectations.
Venturing to retire

Report

17 Apr 2018

From carpenters to lawyers, and from beauty therapists to IT consultants, there are now close to 5 million people in the UK who count themselves as self-employed.
Good work: a better status quo?

Blog

04 Apr 2018

Matthew Taylor

Developing a multi-track approach of a better legal framework and the concerted use of sectoral self-regulation could move employment law from policy backwater to best practice, argues Matthew Taylor.
When a job is no longer enough

Blog

04 Apr 2018

Benedict Dellot

Today there are no shortage of institutions trying to make the world of work that more liveable. But what if a job is no longer enough to get by?
What difference would our new proposals for a Basic Income style payment make to workers’ lives?

Blog

16 Feb 2018

Jamie Cooke

Examples of where we feel the Universal Basic Opportunity Fund could bring great economic security and better work to the lives of people in the UK.
Pathways to Universal Basic Income: the case for a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund

Report

16 Feb 2018

The UBOF represents a stepping stone – to be enacted now – towards Universal Basic Income and a better way of enabling citizens to live meaningful and contributory lives.
Pathways towards economic security and Universal Basic Income

Blog

16 Feb 2018

Anthony Painter

Our new report offers a practical means of advancing the UK towards a Universal Basic Income system. The Universal Basic Opportunity Fund could represent a stepping stone – to be enacted now – towards a better way of enabling citizens to live meaningful and contributory lives.
Six lessons to learn from The Taylor Review

Blog

12 Feb 2018

Benedict Dellot

What can we learn from the outcome of the Taylor Review? Here are 6 takeaways to get us started.

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