Futures of Work
How does digital technology, demographic change, government policies and labour market institutions shape the future of work?
As will, it is likely, responses to possible future health pandemics. Each provides opportunities and challenges.
The future of work is not written. Choices and constraints exist that offer a range of possible futures. How these choices and constraints play out will affect individual wellbeing, the productivity performance of organisations and the competitiveness and wellbeing of communities, regions and countries. This strand of the GRP examines the futures of work through its research and engagement with the public, practitioners and policymakers. It aims to support a future of work that benefits all, including in terms of equality, inclusiveness and diversity. Much of this research is undertaken by CREW, a network that connects researchers of employment and work within Warwick and which is supported by business and government stakeholders across the Midlands and beyond, nationally and internationally.
Some examples of recent research, conducted at Warwick, around this theme, can be found in the Publications and Blogs Section below:
Current Projects
- New challenges for occupational safety and health in times of the digital transformation in Europe: the role of digital labour platforms, with Beate Baldauf and Sally Wright, Funded by CHANSE; Project duration: November 2022 - October 2025
- Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (ReWAGE)Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, with Irena Grugulis; Funded by The NHS Confederation, Project duration April - October 2022
- Improving the future world of work post Covid - ReWAGE subgroupLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, Funded by Deloitte, Project duration: May - November 2022
- Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (ReWAGE)Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, with Irena Grugulis; Funded by the ESRC, Project duration June 2021-December 2022.
- Productivity instituteLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window with Professor Nigel Driffield (WBS),Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window Professor Stephen Roper (WBS) , Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowIrina Surdu,(WBSLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window), Professor Janet Godsell (WMG); Funded by ESRC; Project Start Date: 01/09/2020 - Project End Date: 31/08/2025
Publications
- Green Jobs in Scotland: An inclusive approach to definition, measurement and analysis.
Cardenas Rubio, J., Warhurst, C and Anderson, P. (2022).
Skills Development Scotland. - Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives.
Guest, D., A. Knox and C. Warhurst (2022).
Volume 75, Issue 8 ofHuman Relations. London: Sage. - Measuring the impact of AI on jobs at the organization level: Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders
Hunt, W., Sudipa, S. and Warhurst, C. (2021)
Research Policy, Volume 51, Issue 2, March 2022, 104425, Elsevier (online publication). - Job loss and job creation: pitfalls and opportunities? Brexit, foreign investment and employment,
Professor Nigel Driffield and Dr Erika Kispeter
Warwick Social Sciences policy briefing - 9/2017. - People and Machines: from hype to reality
Professor Chris Warhurst, Dr Wil Hunt, Dr Supida Sarkar
CIPD 2019 - Transforming gender relations in an ageing world: a policy discussion paper
Professor Stephen Roper and Dr Joanne Turner
Journal: International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 38 (6). pp. 504-514. - The Digitalisation of Future Work and Employment. Possible impact and policy responses
Professor Chris Warhurst and Will Hunt, 2019
Joint Research Council Working Papers Series on Labour, Education and Technology
Seville: European Commission
Blogs
- 'Do the self-employed have a future in the UK?'
Professor Chris Warhurst
17 July, 2020
How has covid-19 affected the self-employed and are the government's measures enough to help those who are self employed? - 'The shape of things to come?'
Professor Chris Warhurst
01 June, 2020
Professor Chris Warhurst examines what the current landscape of employment looks like and what the UK government could do to reboot its industrial strategy. - 'A new definition of "essential work"- from hedge funds to logistics'
Professor Nigel Driffield
29 April, 2020
Professor Nigel Driffield considers how we have come to perceive essential work, and the services we really need to survive in a covid-19 era. - 'Pivoting for success: Building more resilient UK manufacturing supply chains'
Professor Jan Godsell
07 May, 2020
Professor Jan Godsell discusses how UK manufacturing supply chains can pivot and build capability for the future.
